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After lengthy testimony from five witnesses, Rappahannock General District Court Judge William Carson found Greg Hutcheson of Sperryville not guilty of charges of trespassing to hunt, hunting without a license, and hunting without a big game license. Mr. Hutcheson was found guilty of cursive and abusive language directed at Uli Maeyer, who filed the charges against the defendant.
It was argued by Commonwealth Attorney Peter Luke that Greg Hutcheson had been hunting on Mr. Maeyer’s property and that he shot and gutted a deer on January 4. Mr. Hutcheson’s father owns property near Mr. Maeyer’s land.
Trooper William Jenkins testified that he had heard a shot coming from the direction of the Maeyer property on the morning of January 4 and that he had tracked through Mr. Maeyer’s wooded property looking for the hunter. He said he found Mr. Hutcheson on the Maeyer property with a freshly gutted deer and that he was sure the deer had been shot where it was gutted.
According to Trooper Jenkins, he then told Mr. Hutcheson that he was trespassing. The trooper, according to testimony, then proceeded to seize the deer.
Commonwealth Attorney Peter Luke said that even if Mr. Hutcheson had shot the deer from his father’s land, Mr. Hutcheson was still guilty of hunting on Maeyer property, since he had been pursuing the deer into Mr. Maeyer’s woods without permission or a license cheson said that he did not have a hunting license, since a license is not required for hunting on family property.
Both Mr. Maeyer and Mr. Hutcheson agreed that when Mr. Hutcheson came to Mr. Maeyer’s home that evening to discuss the matter of the seized deer, Mr. Hutcheson used provocative language.
William Payne of Warrenton, lawyer for the defendant, argued that Mr. Hutcheson had been fully aware that he was not supposed to hunt on the Maeyer property and that Trooper Jenkins had been mis
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