11 Ga. App. 809 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1912
The accused was charged with a violation of the act of 1911, commonly known as the “game law,” in that, without a license, he did hunt upon the lands of J. A. Gibbs in Harris district, G. M., in said county, without first having obtained permission of the landowner; and on his trial he was convicted. It is insisted that under the facts, which 'are not in dispute, the conviction was unauthorized. These facts, briefly stated, are as follows: The accused hunted upon the land of the person mentioned in the accusation, without the permission of the owner. He was hunting rabbits with hounds, and, although he had in his possession a gun, he did not shoot 'at the rabbits or any other game or animals. He was hunting with hounds on the lands of another. The contention is that rabbits are not such game as are protected by the terms of the act in question, and that it is lawful to hunt-or follow hounds
The undisputed evidence showing that the accused was hunting rabbits with hounds, on the land of the person designated in the accusation, without the permission of such person, and without having followed the hounds in pursuit of the rabbits from adjacent land on which he had permission to hunt from, the landowner, his conviction was demanded by the evidence and the law as construed in this opinion. Judgment affirmed.