Can an animal be charged with a crime?

In 1805 a monkey in Hartlepool, England was convicted of espionage:

"During the Napoleonic Wars, a monkey, the lone survivor of a French ship, washed ashore in an old fishing village on England’s northeastern coast. (The boat, it seems, didn’t make it.) Having never seen either a monkey or a Frenchman, the townspeople mistook the animal for a Frenchman. They convicted him of espionage and hanged the animal on the beach. Or so the story goes. True or not, the monkey remains the mascot of the town’s soccer team. The mascot’s name?  H’angus the monkey."

Meet more of the world’s most notorious animal offenders here.

Thanks Bruce!