Melech v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

This prosecution originated in the Justice of the Peace Court. The affidavit charged defendant “did violate the bait shrimp law.” Defendant was convicted and appealed to the Circuit Court, where he was again convicted, and he appeals here.

The applicable provisions of the Statute are:

“§ 164(1). Nothing in the laws of the state of Alabama shall be so construed as to prevent any citizen thereof from taking or catching or attempting to catch or take any shrimp in any of the open waters of Mobile Bay below what is known as the Cochrane Bridge Causeway, without license…