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Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
BODMIN GUILDHALL.— Friday. 
Before the Mayor (J. Oke, Esq.), Captain Hamley, R.N., Lieut. 
Liddell, R.N., J. Ward, and H. Mudge, Esqs. 
BARBAROUS CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 
John Palmer Yeo was charged with cruelty to two dogs, and with 
assaulting Mr. William Brabyn, of Lanivet, on the 18th of June. 
Mr. Preston Wallis appeared for the defence. 
It appeared from the evidence that on the day in question Mr. 
Brabyn was in Back Street, when he saw the defendant setting two 
dogs to fight. On his interfering, and requesting that the dogs 
might be separated, Yeo struck him on the chest.—The magistrates 
thought the evidence was not sufficiently strong, but fined the de¬ 
fendant 10s. and the costs for the assault. 
Richard Yeo, a brother of the defendant in the last case, was sum¬ 
moned by the Rev. C. M. E. Collins, of Trewardale, for cruelty to 
a colt. Mr. J. B. Collins appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. 
Preston Wallis for the defence. 
From the opening address of Mr. Collins, it appeared that the 
defendant’s brother, John Yeo, was a horse-trainer, residing at 
Bodmin, and that in May a colt was placed in his hands by com¬ 
plainant for the purpose of being trained. That the defendant, who 
is either a partner or in the employ of his brother John, had treated 
the colt with such great cruelty that the complainant felt bound, on 
public grounds, to prosecute him. Mr. Collins then called 
Mr. J. Mudge, veterinary surgeon, who said—My place of busi¬ 
ness is in Back Street. Yeo’s stable is also in that street. On 
Monday, the 30th of May, I saw at the railway wharf Richard Yeo, 
riding a colt. There were many people collected. He was spurring 
and beating the colt violently. I could hear the lashes from my 
shop—fifty paces distant. It was in the latter part of the afternoon. 
The treatment was not such as was necessary to train a colt. It 
was barbarous and cruel. The sides of the colt were spurred a good 
deal. There were places stripped and bleeding as large as my hand. 
The flanks were stripped, and the further side was much rubbed or 
beaten. I have seen Mr. Collins’s horse since, and believe it to be 
the same that Yeo was ill-using. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Wallis .—It was a bay horse, with black 
points. Defendant’s flogging it called my attention on the day in 
question. I could hear the flogging at a distance of fifty paces. 
There were several persons there, but I don’t know who they all 
were. The gelding had what is called a broom tail. It did not 
reach as far as the hocks. The horse was Mr. Collins’s. If Mr. 
Collins had not summoned the defendant for the cruelty, I should 
have done so. Yeo had on spurs, and had a straight jockey whip. 
He was beating the colt under the belly and on the fore legs, thighs, 
and flanks. The wounds could not have been inflicted in any other 
