Peters v. State

The plaintiffs in error were indicted for, and upon trial were found guilty of, a violation of Sec. 1 of Ch. 127 of the Acts of 1895. This Act is entitled <cAn Act for the protection of fish in the State of Tennessee,” and by its first section makes it “ unlawful for any person or persons to catch, kill, or wound any ■ fish in any of the streams, lakes, rivers, or ponds in this State,” *684by ■ seine, etc., or “ in any way, ’ ’ etc., ‘ ‘except by rod or line or trot line.” It is provided, however, that “this section shall not apply to private ponds.”

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