Cruelty to Horse (Conviction at Jedburgh).

HC Deb 25 February 1914 vol 58 cc1785-6W

Sir JOHN JARDINE

asked the Lord Advocate, with reference to the conviction of John Douglas, at Jedburgh, by the sheriff-substitute, on the 13th February, for cruelly illtreating a lame horse by walking it at Kelso towards the railway station, whether, as a sentence of twenty-one days' imprisonment was passed without the option of a fine, he will make inquiry into the circumstances, the youth of the offender, the absence of previous conviction, and the fact that the cruelty consisted in merely leading the animal, with a view to a possible reduction of the term of imprisonment?

Mr. McKINNON WOOD

I am making inquiry as requested by my hon. Friend.