POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 811, 23 August 1872, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

THIS DAY.

Before Messrs G S Graham and G P

Pierce, Justices of the Peace

DEUNKENNESS

Six drunken men were fined 5 s each, one was fined 10s and costs, another forfeited his bail, and John Thackaberry was sent to gaol for seven days for his third offence.

A VIOLENT DEUNKAED.

James Brown, alias Leslie, was convicted of his third offence of drunkennes. He was also charged with assaulting Constable Limmer while in the execution of his duty, by kicking him in the face and body. He was further charged with maliciously destroying the property of the Government in tho shape of a tub, valued at six shillings. The prisoner could not remember the assault, and it was proved by the officers, Limmer exhibiting the marks of the kick on his face.

Inspector Broham informed the Court that the prisoner had only just been liberated from prison where he had been undergoing a sentence of fourteen days' imprisonment for a similar offence. The Court sentenced him to seven days imprisonment for drunkenness, and three months for assaulting the police. The offence of smashing the Government tub was proved by a fellow prisoner, and the accused was ordered to pay tho value of the vessel, or in default to undergo seven days' imprisonment, and to kept to hard labor,

THE CATTLE NUISANCE

George McCaslan was charged by Inspector Goldie with allowing his horse to wander in Hopetown street, on the 3rd inst. r ß .t : , ~ ~-. . The defendant admitted the . offence, and was fined "ten shillings and costs, including a witness's expenses. W C Campbell was also charged by Inspector iGoldie with driving two cows on the footpath in Wellington street on the 3rd instant. . .

The defendant urged in extenuation that one of the cows had calved on the way, and the boy iv charge was obliged to stay behind to attend to it. Mr Brodie did not wish to press this case,, as he believed the statement j was correct.' •'. ' ■ ". f I

The Court thought the defendant had no right to drive a cow through the street while so /near on the point of calving. The defendant said that it was impossible for any man to know that, but was ordered to keep silent by the usher of the Court. The Bench fined him five shillings and costs,

This concluded the business,