Legal Opinion
State v. Taylor
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
Decided February 17, 1998No. COA97-136PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McGEE, Judge.
Defendant was charged with violating the Martin County Animal Control Ordinance, Section VI: Noisy Animals for the offense of Excessive Noises by Dogs in a misdemeanor criminal summons issued 22 December 1995.
Evidence presented at trial showed that from 1960 to 1995 defendant kept dogs on his property. However, it was not until 1991, when defendant started keeping walker hounds, that neighbors complained of excessive barking. Testimony showed that a particular trait of walker hounds is that the hounds tend to bark when they tree a raccoon and they do not stop barking until their…
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