SUPREME COURT.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 39, 14 August 1895, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

CBIMINAL SESSIONS. (Before His Honour the Chief Justice.) This Dat. "William Smith, who was tried last week for obtaining money from G. Mawson by false pretences, and was remanded for a second trial as the jury, after being locked up all night, could not agree, saved the Crown farther expense by pleading Guilty this morning. Prisoner, against whom there were a number of previous convictions, was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment with hard labour. , • THE PAPXWAI JtOBBERT. Iv the c»bo, commenced yesterday, in whioh Percy Flank was charged with having, in conjunction with Thos. Schofield, broken into the house of John Alfred Jury, at Papawai, and stolen rations articles, the Crown proved that a quantity of the Btolen property was found in the tent occupied by Plank, Sohofield, and a man named M'Donald, at Whitimannka. Plank was called in his own defence, and denied having had any hand in the robbery, but suggested that M'Donald, who bad been called aa a witness for the Crown, was in some way oonneoted with it, as he had access to the boxes in whioh the stolen goods were found. The jury, after an absence of threequarters of an hour, returned to Court, and said they found the prisoner Guilty of " being in possession of stolen property." His Honour said being in possession of stolen property was no crime, though receiving stolen property was. The jury again retired, and after more than two hours further deliberation found the prisoner Guilty of receiving stolen property. Sentence was deferred.