SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.
. , (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ' ■■'■ ;'■-•••■■"■;''■ ■''•flmaru, September 7.- ;. .The ' Sapxeme'■'■' Court sittings commonced licro this" morning, before Mr. Justice'Den-' nistori. :Tlie .Grand Jury found v tmo bills against George,Mo'styn and Moses Burgess, .chnrgbd with assault and robbery; Joseph Matthews, alleged perjury; and Fredorick John Lewis, alleged criminal assault on a girl. The jury found no bill in tho caso of Walter Coleman,v charged with criminal assault. Tho caBO against charged with perjury, ;was remanded, to tho next sitting of ;the Court, owing', to tho illness 'of the principal witness. George Mostyn and Moses Burgess wero convioted of assaulting* and robbing Duncan M'Larcn, andwero eaoh sentenced to three ■ months- imprisonment.
, , Napier, September 7. Addressing the Grand Jury at the opening of the Supremo Court, Mr,.. Justico Cooper congratulated the. district. oh tho marlsed .absence of sprious /crime, tno calendar presented .comprising only, thrco chnrgos—two of forgery and ono against a Maori of; misconduct; Jqhn Smith-pleaded guilty to forgery, and was sentenced to. nino months' imprisonment. True bills were returned in all then cases, '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 606, 8 September 1909, Page 4
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