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  "name": "Rowe v. State",
  "name_abbreviation": "Rowe v. State",
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        "text": "McCueeoch, J.\nAppellant was convicted of the offense of unlawful fishing in Cache River, and appeals to this court. The indictment charges that he did \u201cunlawfully catch fish with a net and a.seine in the waters of this State, to-wit: Cache River,\u201d etc., and the proof tended to show, that he fished with a trammel net. A demurrer was filed to the indictment on the ground that it charged the commission of two separate offenses, and the demurrer was overruled. Did the court err in overruling it?\nThe statute on which the indictment is founded is as follows: \u201cNo person shall be allowed to place, erect, or cause to be placed or erected, or maintained in any of the waters of this State * * * * any seine-net, gill-net, trammel-net, set-net, bag-weir, bush-drag, any fishdrap or dam, or any other device or obstruction, or by any such means to take or catch any fish in the waters of this State. * * * Provided, further, it shall not be unlawful for any person or persons to use a seine with meshes not less than four inches square, and any person using a seine with meshes less than four inches in width shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, and such nets are hereby declared a nuisance, and no person shall be liable to the owners for destroying the same; and it is hereby made the duty of all sheriffs, constables and other peace officers to destroy all such nets unlawfully used,\u201d etc. Kirby\u2019s Digest, \u00a7 3600.\nT.he next section of the statute prescribes a fine of not less than five dollars nor more -than two hundred dollars as a penalty for each violation.\nIt is readily seen that .the statute in question makes the use, in catching fish, of a seine with meshes less than 4 inches in width a separate and distinct offense from that of using any of the other devices mentioned in the statute, and a different penalty is prescribed therefor. The .indictment in this case charged the use of both a seine and a net, and therefore improperly embraced two separate offenses.\nThis is not an instance of an indictment charging the commission of one offense in two different ways, but of an indictment charging in the same count two separate and distinguishable offenses, for which different penalties are prescribed. This \u25a0can not be done. Nor can the defendant be convicted of using a trammel-net under an indictment charging him with having used a .seine. A seine is a kind of net, but a trammel-net is not a seine.\nWe are therefore of the opinion that the court erred in not sustaining a demurrer to the indictment. Appellant also contends that the .court erred in refusing to instruct the jury that the use of a trammel-net with meshes not less than 4 inches in width is not unlawful. The court was right in that respect. That exception in the statute applies only to seines, and not to other devices mentioned.\nReversed and remanded.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "McCueeoch, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "W. A. Leach, for appellant.",
      "William F. Kirby, Attorney General, and Dan\u2019l Taylor, Assistant, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Rowe v. State.\nOpinion delivered June 24, 1907.\n1. Fish \u2014 indictment for unlawfully catching \u2014 duplicity.\u2014An indictment for unlawfully catching fish with a net and a seine in the waters of this State is bad for duplicity. (Page 246.)\n2. Same \u2014 construction oe statute. \u2014 The proviso in Kirby\u2019s Digest, \u00a7 3600, allowing the use of a seine with meshes not less than four inches square, applies only to seines, and not to the other devices mentioned therein. (Page 246.)\nAppeal from Prairie Circuit Court; Eugene Lankford, Judge;\nreversed.\nW. A. Leach, for appellant.\nThe demurrer should have been sustained. Kirby\u2019s Dig. c. 69, \u00a7 3600; 22 Cyc. p. 376, 380, 382.\nWilliam F. Kirby, Attorney General, and Dan\u2019l Taylor, Assistant, for appellee.\nAll seines are nets: the word seine is mere surplusage, and only one offense is charged. 68 Ark. 487; 20 D. R. A. 52."
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