State v. HOGEVOLL

This criminal case arose out of a 2005 second-season coast bull elk hunt. Defendant shot and hauled from the field an elk for which he had a tag, but he also took possession of a second elk for which he did not have a tag, which someone also had shot and killed. Defendant was charged by a “Uniform Fish/Wildlife Citation and Complaint” with “exceeding bag limit on coast bull elk.” At defendant’s trial, the trial court refused to give a special instruction that defendant requested, which would have told the jury that, to be guilty of “exceeding [the] bag limit,” defendant would have to be found…