Hendricks v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a writ of error and supersedeas to a judgment of the county court of Fairfax county, rendered at the December term, 1880, upon an indictment against George Hendricks, the plaintiff in error, for unlawful fishing in the Potomac river. A writ of error had been refused by the judge of the circuit court of said county, but was awarded by one of the judges of this court. The indictment contains two counts, which are fully set forth in the opinion of the court.
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This was a writ of error and supersedeas to a judgment of the county court of Fairfax county, rendered at the December term, 1880, upon an indictment against George Hendricks, the plaintiff in error, for unlawful fishing in the Potomac river. A writ of error had been refused by the judge of the circuit court of said county, but was awarded by one of the judges of this court. The indictment contains two counts, which are fully set forth in the opinion of the court. At the October term, 1880, the accused was arraigned and pleaded “not guilty,” and a jury was sworn and found “the accused guilty…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
The indictment contains two counts. The first charges, that between the 1st day of March and the 1st day of June, 1880—viz: on the 17th day of May, 1880—within the waters, bounds and berth of a regularly hauled fishing landing upon the Potomac river, in the county of Fairfax, without permission either of the owner or occupier of the said fishing landing, he, the said George Hendricks—the plaintiff in error—a certain seine and gill-net, which he then and there had, did unlawfully haul, drift and fish, contrary to the act of the general assembly in such case made and *939provided by the mutual…
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