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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
George H. Lcrnb said: I am a veterinary surgeon, living at 
Liskeard. I have been attending Mr. Collins’s horse. I saw it 
first after it had been ill-treated on the 7th of June. It was then 
at Trewardale. The sight of the near eye was gone. There was a 
blemish on the outer side of the off knee, and another on the side 
of the off hock. The sides were cut up a good deal, apparently by 
spurs. The off side was cut with a whip or stick. There was a welt 
on one of the thighs. The hair was gone from one pin, and also 
from the thighs, evidently from rubbing against a wall. I have been 
treating the horse ever since. The eye will be lost, in consequence 
of external injury of some sort. That injury might have been caused 
by blows. When I first saw the horse it was suffering much, and 
standing on three legs only. It was much emaciated. I have seen 
it to-day. I was in Yeo’s stable on the 3rd of June, but did not see 
it. I have seen it there before that. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Wallis .—I remonstrated withYeo for not 
having consulted me, as Mr. Collins was away. The wounds were 
caused by a whip or a stick. The injury to the eye might have been 
caused by the horse falling on a stone or nail. I have also treated 
the horse for lameness. The state in which I have described it could 
not have been caused by that lameness. 
Mr. Wallis addressed the magistrates for the defence, and 
called 
John Palmer Yeo, who said : On the 4th of April I took Mr. 
Collins’s horse to train. About the same time I had one from 
Mr. Paul. They were both geldings, and of the same colour. Mr. 
Collins’s horse had been in the hands of a trainer last year. The 
fourth time of riding it commenced kicking, and smashed my window. 
Two days after it became lame, and was laid up for three weeks. 
Mr. Lamb attended it. I went to Trewardale on the 27th of May 
with the horse. Mr. Collins mounted and rode it, and so did his 
son, and Jones, his groom. Jones said he was pleased with it. Mr. 
Collins intended riding the horse to Bodmin, and got on it for that 
purpose. When he got down to the gate, he was not willing to go 
to Bodmin, but afterwards went on. The horse kicked several 
times that day whilst Mr. Collins was with me. It was not saddled 
after that day until Monday, at four o’clock, when I rode it around 
the yard. It was kicking all the time. At last it threw itself over 
with me, and, in falling, knocked its eye against the corner of the 
wall. Harvey, who assists me, then rode the horse around the 
yard, and it kicked itself over again. My brother Richard then 
mounted, and rode it round the yard. It was kicking all the time. 
Its hips, hocks, legs, and eye were injured that afternoon. The horse 
did not go out of the yard saddled that day. Mr. Paul’s horse 
was stubborn, would kick, and was very sulky. I succeeded in curing 
him, principally by whip and spurs. Mr. Collins’s horse was never 
ridden after Monday, the 30th, and then not out of my yard. On 
Monday afternoon my brother rode Mr. Paul’s horse. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Collins. —Mr. Collins’s horse was taken 
on the 4th of April and returned on the 4th of June. It was quiet 
in the stable. I went to Trewardale on the 27th of May to make 
