I wasn't there but I would have tracked the wounded deer especially if you shot it on YOUR property. Blood trail would show it and prove it. I like to think that putting a wounded animal out of it potential misery would trump any Natty Resources Officer reason to ticket you for going onto state property.
I watch "Northern Woods Law" (or whatever it is called) on Animal Planet on occasion. Based in ME, NH and maybe VT, it follows a number of "game wardens" in the various northern states. While they are doing a great deed for game animal conservation and against poaching, they are still dicks sometimes ticketing people for fishing without a license or ticketing ATV-ers or snowmobilers for speeding on speedable sections of state trail...