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Trial Set For Woman Accused Of Animal Cruelty

Patricia Adkisson Ruled Competent After Mental Evaluation

POSTED: 1:39 pm CDT August 27, 2009
UPDATED: 6:44 pm CDT August 27, 2009

A trial date has been set for a woman in Hickman County accused of animal cruelty.

Patricia Adkisson will stand trial Dec. 16 in Centerville, Tenn., for charges ranging from aggravated animal cruelty to possession of drug paraphernalia.

Adkisson had been ordered to undergo mental evaluation at Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute earlier this year. That evaluation was completed, and she has been ruled competent to stand trial.

In 2008, investigators found several guns and a list of medical supplies and operating tools at a dog-breeding operation suggesting that Adkisson, the kennel’s owner, may have been performing medical procedures on animals that could not be adopted. She is not a veterinarian.

According to a search warrant, a worker at Pine Bluff Kennels said that almost a dozen dogs were killed in mid-June of that year because they were not adoptable.


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