Alaska Packers' Ass'n v. United States
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Ross, J.
Section 266 of the Compiled Laws of the territory of Alaska provides: “That it shall be unlawful for any person, company, or corporation wantonly to waste or destroy salmon or other food fishes taken or caught in any of the waters of Alaska.”
The preceding section (265) is as follows: “It shall be unlawful to can or salt for sale for food any salmon more than forty-eight hours after it has been killed.”
The plaintiff in error was indicted in the court below for a violation of the first-mentioned section, the indictment alleging that, on the 30th day of July, 1913: It “unlawfully and wantonly did waste and destroy a large number of salmon, which salmon then and there had been taken and caught in the waters of Alaska, to wit, at a point in the waters of Cook Inlet near the western shore of said Inlet between the mouth of the Kustatan river and the West Foreland in said territory and division, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the United States of America.”
The jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged in the indictment, upon, which verdict judgment against the plaintiff in error was entered.