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Show I A DOG ON TRIAL. Most lawyer? smiled when they lead the other day that Judge Evans of j Winchester. Ky., has taken tinder ad j visement the case of tld King, n blooded fox hound, tried in Judge i Kvans' court on a charge of murdering sheep. This Is probably the first case in ' American jurisprudence in which .m animal has been tiled But it Is noi without European precedent. pre-cedent. The fleas of a town in Auvergnc. in 1 Fiance, were granted a tract of land by a court In the fifteenth century. vhere the would be fre from the molestation pi dogs and men; In re-j turn, they were to leave dogs and men ' alone elsewhere. Then there Is the classic rooster of IJasie, tried in 1474 for the alleged lay-ng lay-ng of an egg IRooflter eggs were held to be the production of the devil, as they were I jpposed to be used chiefly in magical j concoct ionB. The court, accordingly! In sentenc j lng the rooster and the egg to be j burned ai tbc stake, made a fine dis- j tinction . . It was as the child of the devil, not , as a mere rooster, that chanticleer i was to suffer death Quibbling Is as old as the law. Some decisions of modern courts , give as good cause for a smile as this , on- of the medieval judge. |