SUPREME COURT TRIALS.
Vs. . (rMSS ASSOCIATION T___GB_M_.) DUNEDIN, November 23. In the gaming cases, the Judge told the Grand Jury that there was. prima facie evidence thab'the business of betting was carried on by tne accused. • The fact that other business was carried on by them was immaterial. True bills were returned in each iiidictinent/. William Burn Storey, aUas Charles Stttart, for indecent assault upon a child 'seven years of age, pleaded "Guilty*•>»_ was sentenced to two years. Charier Wood,' a. seafaring, man, was acquitted &ia> charge of breaking and e«--termßl' H«nry McCarthy, charged with attw-urt and; casing bodily- harm acquitted. Ju '" WELL-NOTON, November 23. The Surreal- Court Criminal Sessions opened to-day, before Mr Justice' Cooper, who reaHai-ke- on the lengthy calendar, and said that in all cases there was.a prima facie case-Hmde and they should all go befoi-Hhe tomtom Jury.. Williaih Loft and Fn&hk Coyle were indicted for robbery with violence at Poxton. Coyla was' acquitted ; Loft "wos convicted nnd sentenced to" five years"; imprisonment. Bobert Ojrilvie- won convicted of an nnnatural offence et Feilding, and remanded for sentence till to-morrow. Frank King, aged al»ut 22, ■; who had pleaded guilty in the lower Court to) tliirteen burglaries in Wellington, admitted another similar charge, and was remanded for sentence. AUCKLAND, November 23.
At the Supreme Court to-day, Mr Justice Edwards sentenced Edward Roan to three years' imprisonment for indecent assault on his daughter, aged ten.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11748, 24 November 1903, Page 9
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