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TUCK v. UNITED STATES

No. 81-1575.

477 A.2d 1115 (1984)

Edward TUCK, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 24, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Halleck, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Paul L. Knight, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., at the time the brief was filed, Michael W. Farrell, Judith Hetherton and G. William Currier, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee. John A. Terry, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., at the time the brief was filed, and Cary M. Feldman, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., also entered appearances for appellee.

Before MACK and PRYOR, Associate Judges, and GALLAGHER, Associate Judge, Retired.

MACK, Associate Judge:

A homo sapiens is entitled to own animals but is not entitled to torment or cruelly destroy them (despite the suggested one-hundred-and-one options for disposal of a carcass)1 — at least not in the District of Columbia.2 See Tuck v. United States, 467 A.2d 727 (D.C.1983). In this case, we have...

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