Dispute over pigs leads to shooting, prison
One man is now serving a minimum 23-year prison sentence after an argument over free-ranging pigs in one Western North Carolina town. An 11-member jury in Jackson County convicted Kenneth William McCall, 68, on Monday, rejecting defense attorney Frank Lay’s claim that McCall acted in self-defense during the shooting that took place in 2020, according to Jackson County District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch. Welch explained that Kenneth McCall and William Walker McCall, 39, had gotten …