Bestiality
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case State v. Smith (2000)
Most recently applied in State v. Brown (March 2004)
Acts 1977, No. 828, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-1813; Acts 2005, No. 1994, § 496; 2007, No. 827, § 30.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) As used in this section, “animal” means any dead or alive nonhuman vertebrate.
(2) A person commits bestiality if he or she performs or submits to any act of sexual gratification with an animal involving his or her or the animal's sex organs and the mouth, anus, penis, or vagina of the other.
(3) Bestiality is a Class A misdemeanor.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.