SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9021, 6 February 1895, Page 5

SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION TBLSG&AH,] TIUARO, February 5. At the opening of the Supreme Court criminal sittings, Judge Denniston said he could not, as usual, congratulate the diet tricts on a light calendar. He addressed the Grand Jury at length on the. two , homicide cases. Hβ advised, them to refer the Franz shooting case to a petty jury to hear what would be said in extenuation or justification. Re the Waihao case, he' went through the,' depositions, . and advised them that there was nothing but conjecture against the accused, and a man's liberty should not be jeopardised on con* - jectures. This was one of the cases in which a Grand Jury should interpose between the Crcwn and an accused. Anderson and Johnson, old offenders, foe thefft from an hotel bedroom at Waimate, were . sentenced to four yean and three year* respectively*

[FEOM OTTE COBKSSFOHDBSX.} (The Grand Jury brought in true bills 'Iα all tfie cases except in the Weihao murder and the Franz shooting cases." They held that the latter was justifiable homicide. A. W. Gaze for forgery and embezzlement .was sentenced to nine months' (imprisonment; - J. W. Gould for stealing » mare was sentenced to six months' probation; R. Carrie for stealing clothes and receiving stolen goods was sentenced to twelve months' im. prisonment; Thomas Gallon or Dillon for, breaking and entering, &&, was sentenced to twelvemonths'imprisonment.