statutory violation for failure to maintain fish traps could be proved without showing “evil or wrongful intent beyond that which is implied from the doing of the prohibited act.”
How later courts described this case
- statutory violation for failure to maintain fish traps could be proved without showing “evil or wrongful intent beyond that which is implied from the doing of the prohibited act.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Mount, J.
(dissenting) — The defendants did not attempt to take fish within the prohibited time. They closed their traps in good faith in the manner provided by law. If that method was not effective, the fault was in the law. The trial court should have directed an acquittal. I therefore dissent.