SUPREME COURT.
[PUB PEHS3 A' SOCfATION ]
Invkbcaeoill, This day,
The Supreme Court opened this morning before Mr Justice Williams. The oalendar includes cases of murder, rape, forgery, and theft. The Judge's remarks in charging the Grand Jury were brief. Referring to tbe Dean case, he simply said that if the evidence that came before them corresponded with the depositions he had read, they'could hardly esoape finding a true bill. True bills were returned in all cases. John Comber, a younar marriod _nan, for forgory, was admitted to probation for 12 months, ono condition being that he should abstain from liquor for that period. William John Calvert, formerly an employe in Fitzgerald's circus, pleaded guilty to a criminal assault on a girl tan years old at liiverton, and was sentenced to seven yeara and one flogging of I twenty lashes. William Scobie, agedeight- | een, for larceny, was admitted to twelve months' probation, Alexander McKenzie, aged nineteen, far stealing two cheques, was sentenced to one month's hard labor
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7388, 11 June 1895, Page 3
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