SUPREME COURT.
SOUTHERN SESSIONS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
NAPIER, this day.
In the Supreme Court this morning William Stratford, aged 18, who pleaded guilty in the loAver Court on two charges of stealing postal notes, was admitted to probation for six months. Kati Tohara was found guilty of breaking and entering at Wairoa, but sentence was deferred.
CHEISTCHUBCH, this day
The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened today. The judge, in his charge to the grand jury, congratulated the district on the lightness of the calendar and the absence from it. of any offences against women and children. Eef erring to. the case of Matthew Barnett, charged with keeping an office for betting, the judge said some persons held, the opinion that there was no harm in betting in itself, and that it should not be prohibited by law. The grand jury had nothing to do with that, their, duty being to see whether there was a prima facie case to go before the common jury on.the
evidence,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 111, 12 May 1902, Page 2
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