Commonwealth v. Dickinson

Citations

• 57 Pa. Super. 380
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 208

Syllabus

<p>Statutes — Repeal—Amendment—Game lam — Killing deer — Acts of May 1,1909, P. L. 825, and May 1, 1918, P. L. 187.</p> <p>1. The Act of May 1, 1909, P. L. 325, which forbids the killing in any one season of more than one male deer “with horns visible above the hair” is not repealed, but is merely amended by the Act of May 1, 1913, P. L. 137, which prohibits the killing of any male deer “with horns two inches above the hair;” and if a person is indicted for a violation of the earlier act before the later act was passed, he cannot after the passage of the later act claim to have the indictment quashed, on the ground that the earlier act was repealed.</p> <p>There never was an instant of time from the date of the approval of the Act of May 1, 1909, to the present when the killing in any one season of more than one deer which did not have horns visible above the hair ceased to be a penal offense.</p>