Seabolt v. Cheesborough

Clark, Judge.

Bang! went the rifle as the hunter shot at a wild turkey. The elusive bird was missed, the velocity of the bullet then speeding it through the trunk of a small tree from which fragments of the shattered projectile ricocheted and hit two other nimrods who were themselves in the underbrush and previously unseen by the shooter. Thus was provided the setting for this case of first impression on the Georgia law applicable to a sport so popular in our State that in the last fiscal twelve-months period our Game and Fish Commission issued 314,720 resident and 10,918 nonresident hunting…