A Whitehorse jury closed the work week Friday with a not-guilty verdict for a man accused of telling his dog to attack a woman.

After retiring to consider their verdict late Friday morning, the jurors came back with the not-guilty decision for all three of Alvin Norman Matthews' charges at 5 p.m. that day.

Matthews, 48, was charged with the aggravated assault of 46-year-old Shannon Cunningham, assault with a weapon his dog, Boulder, being the weapon and assaulting the police officer who tried to arrest him.

Cunningham was bitten by a dog last June when she dashed out of her Carcross home in her housecoat to break up a fight between her dog and Matthews' pet.

Matthews testified at trial last week that he'd grabbed the woman and pulled her away from the scrap because he was worried she'd be bitten.

The woman and her daughter told the court the mother had been pushed to the ground and that Matthews told his dog Boulder to 'sic her' or 'get her.'

Daughter Sarah Kelly, then 16, had grabbed a kitchen knife from inside their home. She stabbed Boulder three or four times after seeing her mother on the ground, bleeding from a wound to the leg.

A friend drove Cunningham and her daughter to the Carcross nursing station, arriving shortly after Matthews, who carried his dying dog to the facility.

When Carcross RCMP's Const. Jeff Monkman, 28, arrived after the nurse called for someone to keep the peace, he and Matthews tussled on the ground after he tried to arrest the man.