SUPREME COURT.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 41, 16 August 1895, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

CRIMINAL SITTINGS. YISTIRDAT. (Before His Honour the Chief Justice ) THB GRITTOWN BAILWAT STATION KOBBKBT. The trial of Thomas Schofield and Percy Plank, for robbery from the Greytown North { Railway-station, was not concluded until after 8 o'clook last night, when the jury found Flank Guilty of receiving the stolen goods. He had previously been found Guilty of receiving property stolen from Mr. A. J. Jury's houeo at Papawai. This Dat. Plank was brought up for sentence this morning, when he maintained his innocence of the obarges. Constable Eccleton said that oth«r artioles found in Plant's boxes had beeu claimed by a Greytown storekeeper, whoso premises were broken into somo time ago. As far as - the police w^re aware, there was nothing to support the prisoner's suggpstion tbat Angus M'Donald (one of tho v itneases for the Crown) was the guilty party. People with whom he had been employed gave him a good charaoter. His Honour said though the jnry had not felt themselves justified in making the inference he Bhonld have drawn — that the person in whose possession the stolen property was found was the person who stole it— it made liUle or no difference There could be no sympathy with a man like tho prisoner, who was in good employment at the time of the committal of tbe offence. Prisoner was sentenced to a term of tbreo years' imprisonment on both charges, the terms to be concurrent. The Crown PrOseoutor entered a nolle proiepii in the charge against Schofield of being conoerned in the robbery from Mr. Jury's premises, and he was accordingly discharged. A 88-TKIAL. The second trial of the boys John Fanlmier, John Conroy, and Charles Brown, oharged with robbery of goods from the warehonse of Charles Cathie, clothing manufacturer, Manners-street, on the 4th Juno last, was .then commenced, and is proceeding at the time of going to press. Mr. Wilford appears in defence of tho aoonsed, who pleaded Not Guilty, and Mr. S. B. Johnson is foreman of the jury.