M. P. Lehman v. Alfred Sawyer

BROWN, J. -- The defendant in error, Alfred Sawyer, petitioner in the court below, filed his petition for writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he was being unlawfully restrained by the sheriff of Dade County upon an information issuing out of the criminal court of record in and for Dade County charging petitioner with unlawfully catching certain fish in the salt waters of the State of Florida within said County of Dade, with a certain seine and net of less size than one and one-half inches bar, measured from knot to knot, and a stretch mesh of less than three inches from knot to knot, after being tarred and shrunk, contrary to the form of the statute in such cases made provided.