Johnson v. State

Johnson and Grice were indicted, under section 588 of the Penal Code, by the grand jury of Camden county, for taking oysters from a private oyster-bed without the consent of the owner of the bed. The jury returned a verdict of guilty; whereupon they made a motion for a new trial, which was overruled, and they excepted. It was admitted that the accused persons took a quantity of oysters from an oyster-bed located in King’s Bay, in Camden county; and it was shown by uncontradicted evidence that King’s Bay is salt water and is an arm of the sea or the Atlantic Ocean, and that the tide ebbs and…