Laing v. Commonwealth

The appellant, Jim Laing, herein referred to as defendant, appeals from a judgment entered by the circuit court finding that the shepherd, or police, dog owned by the defendant was a livestock killer, “having been found in the act of killing, injuring and worrying *683sheep,” and ordering Chat the dog be killed immediately by an officer designated for that purpose.

The proceeding had its origin in a warrant issued by the clerk of the county court of Giles county on the complaint of the dog warden that the defendant, on February 28, 1961, did “unlawfully possess one sheep killing dog”. While the…