State v. Cowperthwaite

DUFRESNE, Chief Justice.

Earle C. Cowperthwaite, Jr., the defendant-appellant, was convicted by a Superior Court jury (Hancock County) of the crime of night hunting in violation of 12 M.R.S. A. § 2455 and of failing to stop on the signal of uniformed game wardens in contravention of 12 M.R.S.A. § 3051(2). His appeals from the ensuing judgments are denied.

The defendant charges error in the Court below in the admission at trial of certain real evidence which he claims was the fruit of an illegal search and seizure and in the instructions to the jury. He further contends that the evidence was…