SUPREME COURT.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 131, 2 December 1908, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

[l-BESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, to-day. At the- Supreme Court an old maai named James William Adamson declared that the case was a pure fabrication against him. . The judge said he was rightly convicted. It was absolutely shocking to see .an -old* man like accused assaulting little children. Old age and weakness made it brutal to inflict a flogging, and he would be sentenced te three years' hard labor. A plea of mercy was put in on behalf of Harry Roland, found guilty of intent to commit assault, and he was sentenced to two years. In sentencing Henry Thompson, found guilty of ten offences of indecent exposure, the judge said the offences were most disgusting, and so serious that they were made indictable so that the punishment of whipping might be added. By a curious oversight of the Legislature it was not in his power to order that punishment, because th© Crimes Act says that whipping shall not be ordered to any offender over sixteen. Tlie extreme penalty was one year for each offence, and the judge ordered two months for each, a total of twenty months.