Ohio Division of Wildlife v. Clifton

John R. Adkins, Judge.

This matter began October 20, 1997, when Officer Kenneth Bebout filed a misdemeanor complaint against the defendant alleging that she did “unlawfully have a game quadruped to wit; a squirrel in captivity without applying for or possessing a game propagating license from the Ohio Division of Wildlife, a violation of 1533.71 of the Ohio Revised Code.” Attached to that complaint is a narrative statement of Officers Bebout and Brown, after having made contact with Mary Jane Clifton in an attempt to seize a certain grey squirrel, which had been reported in the Circleville…