Dog shot with high-powered pellet gun Carlsbad, NM (US) Incident Date: Sunday, Jun 11, 2006 County: Eddy Local Map: available Disposition: Acquitted Person of Interest: William Huckabee Case Updates: 2 update(s) available

Case ID: 10110 Classification: Shooting Animal: dog (non pit-bull) View more cases in NM (US) Animal was offleash or loose Abuse was retaliation against animal's bad behavior Login to Watch this Case

A Carlsbad man accused of shooting and killing a poodle in June waived an arraignment in District Court on Nov 13.

William Huckabee, 40, of the 500 block of Russell Street, is charged with cruelty to animals/maliciously killing an animal in the June 11 shooting of his neighbor's standard poodle outside Huckabee's home on Russell Street.

Huckabee did not appear in court on Nov 13, and instead he chose to waive his right to an arraignment on the charge.

Huckabee has pleaded not guilty to the charge. He told police he fired a high-powered pellet gun at the standard poodle because the dog charged him.

During a preliminary hearing in Magistrate Court in September, his attorney said there was no evidence that Huckabee maliciously killed the dog. He said his client was responding to the attack of a large dog that had been known to growl and be aggressive toward Huckabee and others in the neighborhood.

Evidence presented by a local veterinarian during the preliminary hearing showed the dog was shot once in its left side. Magistrate Judge Henry Castaneda Jr. said the evidence contradicted Huckabee's statements that the dog was attacking him when he fired the pellet gun. He said the dog would have been facing directly toward Huckabee during an attack.

Castaneda ordered the case bound over for trial in District Court.

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