Geneva County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 24-year-old Dewey Denman and his younger teenager brother earlier this year on two misdemeanor charges, which include animal cruelty and hog/canine fighting.
Attorney David Harrison, who represented the two brothers in court, said Dewey Denman pleaded guilty to the animal cruelty charge, and as part of the plea agreement the hog and dog fighting charge was dismissed.
Harrison said Geneva County District Court Judge Stephen Smith sentenced Denman to a suspended jail sentence of 180 days followed by one year of unsupervised probation. Denman was also ordered to pay a $250 fine and court costs.
“What we did was a best interest plea,” Harrison said. “Based on the facts I didn’t want to gamble with my client. I was able to negotiate a small fine and a suspended sentence.”
Harrison said he could not comment about the younger Denman’s criminal charges because the court granted him youthful offender status, which seals the case.
The charges stemmed from a tip made by a neighbor said Geneva County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Tony Helms. He said deputies along with a state livestock investigator conducted surveillance for several weeks before making the arrests.
Helms said at the time of arrests deputies found eight hogs in a 10-by-20 pen fighting with two dogs.
(Dothan Eagle - Nov 11, 2011)
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