Case ID: ohio-law-abs_3/html/0168-02.html
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Author: {"author": "RICHARDS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 265
    BERNTHISTLE et v. STATE
    Ohio Appeals, 6th, Dist., Wood Co.
    No. 324.
    Decided Jan. 26, 1925.
    , 570.,; GAME LAWS—Justices of the Peace are..given final jurisdiction, u^der , Fish and Game La.ws. , , ,.
    Published only in Ohio Law Abstract
   RICHARDS, J.

-Epitomized, Opinion

Floyd Bernthistle and others were convicted before a jristice of the peacé for unlawfully fishing in thé Mauméé river arid catching fish otherwise than by angling! , ' ' ''

In prosecuting error, Bernthistle contends that venue was not proven;-and that he was not given a triál by jury. The court of appeals held:' "' " ' .' ' 1 1 - ‘ " '■

' 1. The record shows that Bernthistle wris fishing, with' a net on the Wood county shoré of the river. Venue need not be proven in express terms, however. State v. Dickerson, 77 OS. 34.

Attorneys—Benjamin F. James for Bern-thistle; Roy D. Avery, Pros. Atty., for State; both of Bowling Green.

2. A justice of the peace has final jurisdiction in cases like those above mentioned and since imprisonment was no part of the penalty, Bernthistle was not entitled to a jury.