Unlike several men and boys convicted of the crime and consequently hanged in the 1640s and ensuing decades, Hogg refused to confess, thus avoiding the death penalty.
[2] Women of various social positions, including a slavewoman named Lucretia, reported his indecency, as he allowed his "filthy nakedness" (penis and scrotum) to show through his breeches.
[3] Five years after Spencer's execution, Hogg was implicated in what was described by University of Tennessee history professor Charles O. Jackson as "the most interesting buggery case" ever.
[4] He was already awaiting trial for theft, dishonesty and indecent exposure when he was brought up on charges of bestiality,[5] after a sow gave birth to two piglets that allegedly resembled him.
[1] Hogg's mistress, Mrs. Lamberton, found the birth to be a sign from God, and told the authorities that one of the "monsters" had "a fair and white skinned and head, as Thomas Hogg is",[3][4] and the other "a head like a child's and one eye like him, the bigger on the right side, as if God would describe the party, with the description of the instrument of bestyalie.