State v. Freeland

The Prosecuting Attorney of Texas County filed in the circuit court a verified information charging defendant (a deputy fish-and-game warden) with killing fish in Jack's Fork of Current River on September __, 1926, by exploding dynamite therein. On change of venue to Phelps County the jury returned a verdict of guilty, assessing the punishment at a fine of six hundred dollars, defendant duly appealing to this court.

The information is based on Section 5616, Revised Statutes 1919. There is no controversy as to the facts. Their salient features develop that the Game-and-Fish Commissioner of the…