Supreme Judicial Court of Maine February 18, 1891 (State v. Dunning)

Whitehouse, J.

Exceptions to the overruling of a demurrer to an indictment based on chap. 292 of the public laws of 1889, regulating the lobster fisheries.

The second section of the act provides that "it is unlawful to catch .... or possess for any purpose” between the dates named " any lobsters less than ten and one half inches in length, alive or dead, ....