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tached either to the coats of the bladder or each other. Mr. Crosse 
favours the idea of their being formed in the kidneys and not in 
the bladder, an opinion with which Mr. Morton was disposed to 
coincide. 
V'ettvinavi* 
MALICIOUSLY WOUNDING A HORSE. 
GEORGE Jeans was indicted for maliciously wounding arid 
maiming ahorse. 
Mr. Bevan conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. 
Edwards defended the prisoner. 
It was given in evidence that the prisoner, on the 26th of March, 
had gone to Sherborne with a waggon and four horses belonging to 
his master, the prosecutor. The horses were all sound when the 
prisoner left. In consequence of what the prosecutor heard on the 
following day, he examined one of these horses, and found part of 
its tongue gone. The prisoner came to him that afternoon, and 
said he hoped his master did not think that he had tried to injure 
the horse, and he ultimately went down on his knees, and said he 
hoped his master would forgive him and not proceed against him. 
The prosecutor replied he did not know, but he thought he should 
be obliged to prosecute. 
Another witness, a boy, stated that he was on the road, near 
Sherborne, that afternoon, and saw the prisoner riding a black 
horse ; that the horse was very restive, and threw the prisoner, and 
dragged him along the road, his feet becoming entangled in the 
harness. When the prisoner recovered his legs, he jumped up 
and caught hold of the horse by the tongue, and pulled it out and 
flung it in the horse’s face. The horse then ran away, and the 
prisoner went on with the waggon. The boy went to the spot where 
this had occurred and picked up the tongue, which was still warm. 
The veterinary surgeon stated that he had examined the horse, 
and found four or five inches of the tongue gone. He admitted it 
was impossible any one could pull the tongue off ; but that he 
thought it had been cut off by its being drawn across a tooth 
which he found excessively sharp in the horse’s mouth. The horse 
had now completely recovered; he was not aware that the animal 
was any the worse ; or the only thing would be, that he could not 
eat corn quite so rapidly as his companions. 
Mr. Edwards contended that it was not a case to go to the jury. 
The evidence shewed no wounding under the count for wounding, 
inasmuch as the prisoner had used no instrument, and that it had 
