In 1474, the city of Basel put a rooster on trial and burned it for the 'heinous and unnatural crime' of _____.

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In legal history, an animal trial is a trial of a non-human animal. These trials were conducted in both secular and ecclesiastic courts. Records of such trials show that they took place in Europe from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. The legal archives on animal cases are spotty.

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