State v. Pottle

ARCHIBALD, Justice.

Defendants were charged with, and convicted of, violating 12 M.R.S.A. § 2455 (Night Hunting) and each has appealed.

We deny the appeals.

Since the defendants were found in an area frequented by deer at a time of day when hunting was illegal, with all the accouterments requisite for night hunting, and were observed in acts from which could be rationally inferred an intent or purpose to search for, find and possess game, there was sufficient evidence to support the verdict. State v. Pike, Me., 306 A.2d 145, 149 (1973); State v. Vicniere, 152 Me. 293, 295, 128 A.2d 851, 852…