The Volokh Conspiracy - Man Guilty in Attack on Girlfriend's Pig:

From the criminal law files:

After Anna Briley kicked her boyfriend out of their east Nashville home, the jilted lover took out his frustrations on her pet pig, "Bacon Bit."

The pig was already suffering from a brain parasite that blinded him in one eye when Carl Leon Houston took his fists and a water hose to the animal on Nov. 7, 2006.

On Monday, Houston, 39, pleaded guilty to animal cruelty before Davidson County Criminal Judge Steve Dozier.

Houston had claimed self-defense and said the pig was "messing with his bike and tried to bite him," according to a police report.
Police called to home

Police were called to the couple's home at 2614 Flamingo Drive by someone reporting that Briley was gone and Houston was beating the pig in the head and spraying water in its ear with a hose.

	[Todd Zywicki, October 11, 2007 at 12:26pm] Trackbacks Man Guilty in Attack on Girlfriend's Pig: From the criminal law files: After Anna Briley kicked her boyfriend out of their east Nashville home, the jilted lover took out his frustrations on her pet pig, "Bacon Bit." The pig was already suffering from a brain parasite that blinded him in one eye when Carl Leon Houston took his fists and a water hose to the animal on Nov. 7, 2006. On Monday, Houston, 39, pleaded guilty to animal cruelty before Davidson County Criminal Judge Steve Dozier. Houston had claimed self-defense and said the pig was "messing with his bike and tried to bite him," according to a police report. Police called to home Police were called to the couple's home at 2614 Flamingo Drive by someone reporting that Briley was gone and Houston was beating the pig in the head and spraying water in its ear with a hose.