he is not entitled, commits an offence for which the 

 penalty Is not exceedmg £2 and costs, unless there are 

 five or more persons together, when the maximum penalty- 

 is £5. 



To pick up wounded game, etc., is a trespass in 

 pursuit, but to pick up dead game which v/as not killed 

 by the person picking it up, or by someone adling in 

 concert with him, is not such a trespass, though it may be 

 and usually is larceny. 



Though shooting over another's land is a common law 

 trespass it is not an "entry" in pursuit. The entry muil 

 be of the body or some part of the body of the trespasser. 

 So a man who, standing on his own land, or on land 

 where he has a right by consent of the owner to be, shoots 

 game, etc., on another's land, cannot be prosecuted for 

 trespass in pursuit even if he sends his dog on to the 

 other's land to retrieve the dead game. If, however, he 

 subsequently enters on the other's land and fetches it him- 

 self, having had at the time of shooting the intention of 

 taking it, he may be convided, although the game, etc., 

 was dead at the time he picked it up. To constitute the 

 offence the shooting and picking up mu^ both be in the 

 daytime. If the shooting. is in the daytime and the picking 

 up at night no criminal offence is committed. 



The mere putting of the arm through a fence or one 

 leg over the boundary is a sufficient entry of the body to 

 ju^ify a conviction. 



A man on a highway in search of game, etc., on or 

 coming from the adjoining land to which he has no right, 

 may be prosecuted for a trespass in pursuit, the land on 

 which he has "entered" and is trespassing being the 



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