There was a guy in Dallas County a few years ago. Beat up his girlfriend. Beat up her mother. Then took the cat and threw it off the second floor balcony. The cat was killed when it hit the paved parking lot below.
Acquitted for beating the girlfriend.
Acquitted for beating her mother.
5 years in prison for cruelty to the cat by using a deadly weapon (the pavement of the parking lot).
If she gets the right lawyer and the right jury, she may well walk.
She’d walk if I was on the jury!