Commonwealth v. Tiffany

This is a complaint under the St. of 1869, c. 384, § 19, and it contains the charge that the defendant “ in that portion of a certain pond, commonly known as Pratt’s Pond, in which fishes are lawfully artificially cultivated and maintained, did unlawfully fish, without the permission of Daniel W. Batchelor, the proprietor of said pond.” The defendant moved before the magistrate and in the Superior Court before the jury were empanelled, to quash the complaint, because it did not allege that Batchelor was the proprietor of the pond, or that the pond had been leased to any person by*the…