State v. Harwood

SHEPARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of a misdemeanor. Appellant-defendant Harwood was found guilty of having had in his possession a game animal, specifically a mountain goat, taken in an area outside that specified in his permit in violation of IC. § 36-805. The trial court imposed a fine of $300 and a fifteen day sentence in the county jail. We reverse the judgment and remand the cause for a new trial.

Of appellant’s assignments of error, we need consider only two. First, that a portion of the carcass of a mountain goat was seized from appellant’s motor vehicle…