TIMARU SUPREME COURT.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10147, 21 September 1898, Page 2

TIMARU SUPREME COURT.

-»_ The criminal session of the Supreme Court; at Timaru opened! yesterday morning, before Mr Justice Denniston. ' There were three cases only, and. his Honour's address to tbe Grand Jury was a brief one. James Gill, ' of Ashbnrton, pleaded "Not guilty" .to a * charge of breach oi the Chatteis iiecuritie* Act, in selling a horse for which he had . given a bill of sale. Ho was dofended by - Air Tripp.. The evidence was the same a* '■ in the lower Court, and the giving evidence on his own behalf, said, he only asked for a loan of 10s on the hor» from Hickman, and never intended, to sell; rt to him. The jury returned a verdict of "Guilty," and the. prisoner was sentenced, to three months' 'imprisonment. W. Mβ", Kay, a youth from Oamaru, wae chargW with stealing a cheque for £17 from , a dbsK in a schoolhouse at Island Cliff." The, prisoner was defended by Mr Harvey, Tie jury' acquitted, accused on the ground of to" perfect identification. James Pbrteou»,.an elderly man, from Oamaru, charged on three countß with theft, was found, guilty 6n one count of stealing a crowbar, worth 7s 6d, the property of J. Bice, and not guilty on the second count, of stealing hammers, &c;, and the third count was withdrawn. He was sentenced to fourteen days' imprison* menfe ________~,