JUDICIAL. [From September 1 to September 30.]

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2865, 1 October 1866, Page 5

JUDICIAL. [From September 1 to September 30.]

The criminal business of the Supreme Court wa opened at ten o'clock on September 3, before hi Honor Mr. Justice Moore. The Grand Jury wer in attendance at that hour, and his Honor, having taken i his seat, delivered the usual charge. Th< following are the casea that have been disposed of :- John H. E. Clarke, forging a cheque on the Bank c Auckland for £5 10a., nine months' imprisonment with hard labour; Solomon H. Levy, charged witi burglary, found guilty of larceny, twelve months imprisonment, with hard labour; John Todd assault with intent to ravish Kitty' Vercoe, a Raglan, on May 19, two years' imprisonment, wife] hard labour ; Frederick Wheatcroft, breach of thi 30th clause of the Arms Act, by attempting to movi warlike stores from Auckland, on the 26th of Ma} last, one day's imprisonment and a fine of £20, ii compliance with the terms of the Act ; Jam© Bloomfield, for burglariously entering the shop o Frederick W. Stretton, Grey-street, two year* imprisonmsnt with hard labour ; William Thompson uttering a forged cheque, twelve months' imprison ment ; William Eastbrooke, stabbing with inteni to do grievous bodily harm, two years' imprison ment with hard labour ; William Morrison, bread of Fraudulent Trustees Act, ' twelve months imprisonment ; William ' JBearndon, larceny, two years' imprisonment ; John Hay wood, robbery from the person, two years' imprisonment, and Stephen Spencer, Bame offence, one year's imprison' ment ; Joseph Bryant, robbery from the person, two yeara' imprisonment, with hard labour ; Samuel Johnson, Henry Kersting, and George Saunders, pig-stealing, four years', two years', and one year's imprisonment respectively, with hard labour ; G M. Campbell, four charges of obtaining money undet false pretences, twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour ; William King, obtaining goods undet false pretences, eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labeur ; Charles E. Taylor, larceny from a dwelling, six months' imprisonment, with hard labour ; Hori Paka te llono, horse-stealing, acquitted ; James H. Moore, alias James Houston, robbery from a dwelling, two years' imprisonment ; Edward Leyland; embezzlement, three months'imprisonment ; Joseph Smith, horse-stealing, eighteen months' imprisonment ; Robert Hngg, embezzlement, acquitted; Joseph Senior, perjury, acquitted; Bartholomew O'Halloran, larceny, twelve months' imprisonment ; Prince Edward Sherman and Charles Eearden,cattlestealing, two years' imprisonment. Patrick Dolan was tried on the 11th September, ;and found guilty of the wilful murder of his comrade, William Bannon,-a private in the Ist Waikato Regiment, at Opotiki, on 9th July last. The jury recommended him to mercy. His Honor, in passing sentence of death, said he would forward the recommendation to the proper quarter. The criminal sessions terminated on the 12th of September, on which day Augustus Clarke, Edwin Clarke, and Benjamin Makin were sentenced, the first two to nine months' imprisonment, and the last to six months' imprisonment, for stealing part of the cargo of the ship c Monarch, ' in which they were passengers to Auckland. Walter Greenshields was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for embezzling the money of his employer, Henry Hardington. During the month several persons have been committed for trial before the Supreme Court. The following is a list :— John Smith, for robbery with violence ; William Tuff and George Little, privates 14th Regiment, robbery from the person; James McLeary, breach of Arms Act, by selling powder without a license ; Frederick Plummer, several charges of burglary ; Thomas Adams, burglary. John Priestly, recently, sentenced to three years' imprisonment for being in possession of arms 1 without a license, was brought up at the Supreme Court on September 28, on a writ of habeas corpus. Mr. MacCormick, who appeared for Priestly, urged various objections to the warrant of committal, and also argued that the Native Circuit Courts Act was intended to apply only to natives. Mr. Gillies appeared for Mr. Mackay, Civil Commissioner, and defended the legality of the sentence. His Honor took time to consider the case.