Willeroy v. Commonwealth

Mr. W. A. Willeroy fives in Richmond and is the owner of a home there at which, in a limited way, he raises chickens.

On the afternoon of October 2, 1942, two dogs came to it and killed five of them. Fearing or anticipating their return, on the afternoon of the next day, he took his sixteen-gauge single-barrel shotgun and went on guard. They did come back; their identity is not in dispute. One of them was small and the other larger. The smaller came first and circled where the chickens had been killed. Nothing was done as to him. Then the larger dog came through his privet hedge, made for the…