{"id":519,"date":"2012-07-27T01:33:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T01:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=519"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:29:31","slug":"illegal-taking-of-game","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=519","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Taking of Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CR50-023.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS50-023.htm\">Definition of &#8220;take and taking&#8221;<\/a> from 10 V.S.A. \u00a7 4001(23) (08\/01\/25).\u00a0 <em>Reporter&#8217;s Note:\u00a0 <\/em>The statutory definition of \u201ctaking\u201d lists various lesser acts prohibited by the statutes.\u00a0 Thus a person may be charged with shooting at a wild animal whether or not the animal is killed.\u00a0 A person may also be charged with \u201cdisturbing,\u201d \u201charrying,\u201d \u201cworrying,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n<p>CR50-101.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS50-101.htm\">Taking deer out of season<\/a>, 10 V.S.A. \u00a7 4745 (04\/06\/07)<\/p>\n<p>CR50-201.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS50-201.htm\">Taking deer from a motor vehicle<\/a>, 10 V.S.A. \u00a7 4705(a) (04\/06\/07)<\/p>\n<p>CR50-211.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS50-211.htm\">Attempting to take deer from a motor vehicle<\/a>, 10 V.S.A. \u00a7 4705(a) (04\/06\/07)<\/p>\n<p>CR50-241.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS50-241.htm\">Taking a deer from a public highway<\/a>, 10 V.S.A. \u00a7 4705(c) (08\/01\/25)<\/p>\n<p>CR50-251.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS50-251.htm\">Attempting to take a deer from a public highway<\/a>, 10 V.S.A. \u00a7 4705(c) (08\/01\/25)<\/p>\n<p>CR50-256.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS50-256.htm\">Shooting at a wild animal from a public highway<\/a>, 10 V.S.A. \u00a7 4705(c) (08\/01\/25).\u00a0 <em>Reporter&#8217;s Note:\u00a0 <\/em>This instruction derives from instructions given by Judge Hudson in a 2002 case.\u00a0 Shooting at a wild animal falls within the definition of taking or attempting to take a wild animal, under the broad language of 10 V.S.A. \u00a7 4001(23).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CR50-023.\u00a0 Definition of &#8220;take and taking&#8221; from 10 V.S.A. \u00a7 4001(23) (08\/01\/25).\u00a0 Reporter&#8217;s Note:\u00a0 The statutory definition of \u201ctaking\u201d lists various lesser acts prohibited by the statutes.\u00a0 Thus a person may be charged with shooting at a wild animal whether &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=519\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":517,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-519","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519\/revisions\/1831"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}