State v. Judy

The appellant was convicted of having in his possession, in the city of St. Louis, on February 12, 1879, one dead quail and one dead prairie-chicken. The fact was admitted on the trial. The defence set up was that the birds were killed in the preceding December, and had been kept sweet by defendant in a refrigerator set up by him for the purpose of thus keeping game.

The act of 1877 (Sess. Acts, p. 333) provides (sect. 1) that it shall be unlawful for any person to catch, kill, or injure any prairie-chickens between February 1 and August 15, and to kill any quail between February 1 and October…