AR-News: (MS - US) Leakesville man found guilty: put a fawn in a pen with two Rottweilers

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Posted on Sat, May. 01, 2004    
Leakesville man found guilty of animal cruelty

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LEAKESVILLE, Miss. - A Leakesville man accused of putting a spotted fawn in a 
pen with two Rottweilers was found guilty of animal cruelty in Greene County 
Circuit Court.

James R. McCullough was charged in Nov. 2003 after authorities received 
information that McCullough was keeping a baby deer in the pen with the two dogs.
McCullough was convicted Friday after testimony from several witnesses, 
including Lucedale veterinarian Karl Smith who treated the deer.

"Both ears were chewed off all the way to the skull," Smith said.
Smith said the fawn was treated with antibiotics for several weeks, but a few 
days after her bandages were removed she died. Smith said the cause of death 
was head trauma.

McCullough denied putting the deer in the pen.
He testified that the deer was sick and he nursed it back to health. He said 
the deer just hung around and jumped into the pen with the dogs on several 
occasions.
Justice Court Judge Joe Beard sentenced McCullough to six months in jail, but 
suspended most of the sentence. McCullough will serve 30 days.
He was fined $100 for possession of a spotted fawn and possession of a deer 
in an enclosure and $1,000 on the animal cruelty charge.
    
    
 
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