State v. Gilletto
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for "hunting” on Sunday, brought by appeal from a judgment of a justice of the peace to the Criminal Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried, by election of. the accused, to the court, Booth, J.; facts found and judgment of guilty rendered, from which the accused appealed. No error. The accused was prosecuted for violation of § 3173 of the General Statutes, reading as follows: “Sunday hunting prohibited.
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Information for "hunting” on Sunday, brought by appeal from a judgment of a justice of the peace to the Criminal Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried, by election of. the accused, to the court, Booth, J.; facts found and judgment of guilty rendered, from which the accused appealed. No error. The accused was prosecuted for violation of § 3173 of the General Statutes, reading as follows: “Sunday hunting prohibited. No person shall, on Sunday, shoot or hunt; and the possession in the open air, on Sunday, of any implement for hunting shall be deemed prima facie evidence of hunting…
1Opinion of the CourtKeeler, J.
In determining the question as to whether the provision under consideration is of the nature of a “game law” or a “Sunday law,” the original form of its enactment, its changes by amendment, and its place in several Revisions of the statutes, will throw considerable light, and also have value in the construction of the section itself.
What is now General Statutes, § 3173, and classified under the title “Fisheries and Game” and the chapter on “Birds,” first made its appearance upon the statute book in the Public Acts of 1877, Chapter 116, § 7. The Act is entitled “An Act concerning the…
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