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Wakita man given two years in animal cruelty case

by: The Associated Press
Tuesday, September 23, 2008


MEDFORD -- A 44-year-old Wakita man has been sentenced to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty in June to seven counts of animal cruelty.

Grant County Associate District Judge Jack Hammontree sentenced George Wesley Gilchrist on Tuesday. Gilchrist will serve three years of probation after the prison term.

Prosecutors say Gilchrist had about 34 horses on his property near Medford in December 2006. Assistant District Attorney Steven Young says that late that year, sheriff's deputies seized seven horses that appeared to be starving. Three later died.

The judge also requested the Gilchrist be sentenced to a year in a county jail on a bogus check charge for which Gilchrist had received a deferred sentence. The sentence would run concurrently with the sentence for the animal cruelty charges.



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