MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 253, 20 July 1920, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE AND MAINTENANCE OASEB.

Mr E Page, S.M., dealt with police caseß at the Magistrate's Ocurt yesterday. Robert Berriman. who paid that he was unable to obtain a bed, and therefore got into the New Zealand State Coal Depot and tried to sleep there, was charged wltn being a rocrue and a vagabond in that ne was found by r.iiiht on these premises. It") wbb convicted and ordered to come up lor sentence when called upon with twelve months. , . , „ Michael Murphy, when drunk, went to a, house in Tui Street, where he had no right to ho, and refused to leave. Nonstable Condon was called in, and after come resistance on the part of Murphy (which resulted in the constable s trousers being damaged) he was removed outsldo the house, where he made nee of obßceiiß language. For beinjr drunk ho was lined 5b.. in default 24 hours' imprisonment. For resisting the constable, he was fined ffls., with the alternative of 14 days imprisonment, and a similar penalty was imposed on him for uslns obscene language. Ho was also ordered to pay 455.-. the.amount of tho damage to the constable s trousers. George Oonroy wae convicted of his fourth offence for drunkenness, also of committing a breach of his prohibition order. On each charge ho was fitutf 205., with the alternative of Bevcn days imprisonment. . „ . i , _ John Kinradc was fined 10s. for drunkennesß.

MAINTENANCE OASES. '_ Bertram Joseph Durney, who had f;iled to comply with the terms of a maintenance order made on behnlf of his wife, and -who had allowed arrears to accumulate to the amount of £14 2b.. was sentenced to a. month's imprisonment, tho warrant to be suspended bo lowr as ha paj-B £2 ss. per week-In reduction of the amount overdue. „ Ethel May Stc.-ena (for whom Mr. ft. S. Johnson appeared) apnlied for separation from her husband. William Henry Stevens (represented by Mr. IV. 0. Mellish). on the grounds of drunkenness and cruelty. She also applied for maintenance. Tho case waa defended. After hearing evidence the Magistrate reserved his decision.