TORTURING A DOG.
THE CYCLIST. HIS PALL, AND HIS .•;;;, .MENTAL STATE. ; . ■;;.;; ' ~. (By. Teloeraph.-Press. Association.) .''.: '. Du'ncdin,-January, 28. -A charge. against Robert''.Vincent,'-., of having tortured a dog at Brighton'ok Docember 29 ! was dismissed by Mr. Widdowsoiii S.M., tins moi'mng." Vincent suetamed ft fall from a 'cycle, throughithe dog, and afterwards hacked its' throat with a penknife, then letting it escape. ''"'.'■■' ..■pr.'-iivans. deposed,this morning that after concussion of the brain a man might act ■in an "apparently rational,manner, yet quito automatically,,and in such'cases after a' period of depression, a period of cxalvatfon' might follow, when tho. victim might become violent. ' :■ '
This evidence, and the evidence: of a man who drove accused to.Green Island later, boro out tho earlier testimony for the .defence. ■;.,.; ,;■-•'
Mr.. \Viddowson held that' Vinconfa was not an act committed mens rea. ;
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1660, 29 January 1913, Page 6
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131TORTURING A DOG. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1660, 29 January 1913, Page 6
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