Rennau v. State

Decided June 4, 1904

Supreme Court of Arkansas · decided 1904-06-04

<p>Fish — seines.—Under Acts 1897, p. 112, Lee county is exempted from the operation of the general act prohibiting any person from placing any :seine in any of the waters of the state.</p>

Relies on Mondschein v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Reversed · Decided 1904-06-04

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Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1934

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Battee, J.

¶1Sam Rennau, Dash Jones, Jim Shinup and Bud Deweise were indicted by a grand jury of Lee county for a violation of section 3421 of Sandels & Hill’s Digest, committed on the 24th day of September, 1903, by placing a seine in the St. Francis river, and taking fish therefrom by means thereof, and were convicted and fined.

¶2The section of the Digest under which they were indicted was amended on the 26th of June, 1897, and Leé county was exempted from the operation thereof. So the act of which defendants were accused was no offense, and they were not subject to indictment. Mondschein v. State, 55 Ark. 389.

¶3Judgment reversed, and indictment dismissed.