State v. Craig
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions from the superior court. The case is stated in the opinion. cited: Whitehead v. Smithers, 2 C. P. Div. 553 ; State v. Randolph, 3 Cent.
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On exceptions from the superior court. The case is stated in the opinion. cited: Whitehead v. Smithers, 2 C. P. Div. 553 ; State v. Randolph, 3 Cent. L. J. 187; Phelps v. Racey, 60 N. Y. 10; Wagner v. People, 97 111. 320; Com. v. Hall, 128 Mass. 410; State v. Beal, 75 Maine, 289 ; Lord v. Ghadbourne, 42 Maine, 442 ; Black v. McGilvery, 38 Maine, 288. It is not in the power of the state to prohibit the taking of short lobsters outside the limits of Maine, and the state nowhere undertakes to do it. . Neither does the law undertake to forbid the bringing into Maine of lobsters lawfully taken…
1Opinion of the CourtHaskell, J.
Complaint for possessing certain lobsters in violation of the act of 1885, c. 275, § 3. The complaint is not made a part of the case, and, as no objection to it is pressed by the learned counsel for the defendant in his brief, the court may well assume that it is sufficient both in form and substance.
I. The court was requested to instruct the jury that, if the' lobsters possessed by the defendant were taken more than a marine league from the shores of Maine, he would not be guilty.
The request was properly denied. The statute prohibits the destruction of certain lobsters. State v. Bennett, 79…
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