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...Thompson summoned a deputy sheriff to witness the sight, then blasted at Ricky with a 16-gauge shotgun. Bleeding, the dog loped away, turned up a bit later at the doorstep of his master, retired Mining Engineer James Laing, 61. Within the week, a Giles County court issued a warrant ordering that Laing be apprehended and brought before the court...
...Lawyer Lutins detected a flaw. The warrant, issued by Giles County officials, had charged Jim Laing with breaking a law by owning a dog that killed sheep. There is no such law in Virginia, insisted Lutins. Moreover, action against killer animals must be in a civil proceeding...
...Irony. Already more than a year had passed since Ricky was first condemned. The court finally ruled in a 4-3 decision that the faulty warrant was a "harmless error." But Chief Justice John W. Eggleston wrote a dissenting minority opinion. Said he: "In effect, the [circuit] court, without notice or process, converted a criminal proceeding against the owner of the dog into a civil proceeding for its forfeiture. This may be a short cut to the desired result, but, in my opinion, it does violence to the elementary requirement of due process...
According to Farnsworth, the FCAS decided last Wednesday that the situation had become serious enough to warrant a full-scale survey. Farnsworth said the FCAS would report its findings to the committee on sports of the American Medical Association...
Vietnam is not vital enough to U. S. security to justify the sacrifices that America will have to continue making to keep Diem in power. Nor is the alternative to Diem--a Communist government in Vietnam--so dangerous as to warrant these sacrifices...