A Burnet County jury on Friday, Nov. 14 found former Burnet County Precinct 3 Commissioner Billy Wall guilty on six charges of animal cruelty connected to the starvation and neglect of his cattle during a drought in 2022.

About 80 cattle were seized from Wall’s property near Bertram in September 2022 after complaints were reported to the Burnet County Sheriff’s Office about the poor state of the animals. Ultimately, Wall was charged with eight counts of animal cruelty in the case and a jury of his peers found him guilty on six of those charges on Friday.

The case was handled in the Burnet County Court at Law by visiting judge Kevin Henderson and Williamson County prosecutor Mariel Kelley to avoid conflicts of interest Wall may have had with members of the Burnet County government.

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