Crime And Punishment In Ancient Greece

OTHER HOMICIDE COURTS
If someone already exiled for unintentional homicide was accused of
committing another homicide intentionally, he could not enter
Attica for trial, but was allowed to make his defence from a boat
offshore at a place called Phreatto, while the ephetai sat on the
beach.
Homicides alleged to have been committed by an unknown person, or
by an animal or inanimate object, were tried at the Prytaneion, a
building on the northern side of the Acropolis.
An animal found guilty of homicide was presumably put to death or
driven out of Attica.
An inanimate object, such as a stone or a tree which had fallen on a
person and killed him, was cast beyond the frontiers of Attica.