State v. Lewis

This was a prosecution by affidavit and information filed against the appellee in the Lake Circuit Court, charging the appellee with a violation of the statute making it a misdemeanor for a person to have in his possession a gill net or seine in certain cases, and prescribing the penalty therefor.

Section 2 of an act entitled ‘ ‘An act to amend section 209 of an act entitled ‘An act concerning public' offenses and their punishment,’ approved April 14th, 1881, the same being section 2117 of the Revised Statutes of 1881, and declaring an emergency, approved March 5th, 1889, ’ ’ provides that:…