United States v. Roger Paul Hamel

OPINION

Before: WRIGHT and CHOY, Circuit Judges, and WHELAN, * District Judge. PER CURIAM:

Appellant, a taxidermist, was convicted of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (the Act) by offering to sell and barter and causing to be transported snowy owls after they became a protected species under the Act in March of 1972. [16 U.S.C. §§ 703 and 707.] We affirm.

The indictment did not allege the time of appellant’s taking of the snowy owl. It charged that his acts were done willfully and knowingly. The defendant offered no evidence.

He had been convicted before of similar misdemeanor offenses…