SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 119, 5 February 1923, Page 4

SUPREME COURT

CRIMINAL SESSIONS. The list of cases to be heard at the criminal sessions, which commence on Tuesday, is as follows:— George Robert Kemp, alleged false pretences; James George Bruce, alleged theft; William Standon, alleged carnal knowledge; John Madson, alleged theft; 'William James Parkes, alleged theft from the 1 person; Edith Mary Armstrong, alleged manslaughter; John Ward, alleged indecent exposure; Francis Augustus Stempa, alleged theft; Francis Michael O’Keefe, alleged incest ; Timothy O’Keefe, alleged incest; Charles Henry Goffin, alleged obscene exposure: John Burke, alleged indecent assault; James Patrick O’Brien, alleged indecent assault; Arthur Burdell and Herbert Bdward Turner, alleged assault causing bodily harm; Ronald Thomas Ferguson, alleged arson; Ralfo Antonovich, alleged receiving of stolen goods; Arthur Edward Dodd, alleged receiving of stolen goods; Stanley Winwood McKissack Reid, alleged assault with intent- to commit rape; John Tuhi, alleged murder: Danieljßicharil Cooper, alleged use of instruments to procure abortion (seven charges), alleged use of- instruments or other means to procure abortion, alleged supply of noxious material for ■an illegal purpose.

PRISONERS SENTENCED

Prisoners wno pleaded guilty in the Lower Court were sentenced in the Supreme Court on Saturday morning by His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman, THEFT. • Edward Cecil Hatfield was ordered to be detained for nine months for reformative purposes, having pleaded guilty to breaking, entering, and theft. William Joseph Gee, on nine charges of theft and three of breaking and entering, was ordered to be detained for reformative treatment for twelve months on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. Frederick George Lester and Walter Reid Hill, who admitted having stolen a gig and harness, were each ordered to be detained for twelve months lor reformative purposes. Clarence Amos Woods, an absconder from the Weraroa State School, who was described by the police as having a distaste for work and of being of peculiar mentality, was ordered three years’ reformative detention.