SUPREME COURT.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 43, 19 August 1895, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

CRIMINAL SITTINGS. (Before His Honour the Chief Justice ) This Dat. Tbe third week of the criminal sittings waß entered upon this morning. THI TBADI-MABK CASK. In the oase of B. F. Davy, charged with an infringement of the trade-mark of Joseph i Wertheim as applied to aewing machines, Mr Jelliooe asked his Honour for a deoision 1 on his motion to quash the indictment on i the gronud that it preferred a charge upon which Davy had not been committed for ■ trial, and the evidence did not sustain, i After considerable argument, his Honour i overrated the objection. I bir Robert Stout, who appeared for th» ' proseoution, then applied for an adjourn* i ment of the trial until the next sessions, a* Thomas Caetlehow, amateiial witness, could . not be found. [ His Honour granted the application, and 1 also estreated tho recognizance of the witi ness. The accused was bound 'over in his own reoognizanoe of &10 and a surety of $ i similar amount to appear for trial at the , next sittings: BREAKING LVD CNTBBIITO. 1 Charles Brown and John Conroy/aoquitted last week on .a charge of robbery from % olothing warehouse, were now charged with having broken into the shop of R. Hannah k Co., and stolen several pairs of boots and shoes, 5a 9d worth of postage stamps, and 1* 9d is money. They were defended by Mr. Wilford, and pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. Gully proseouted for the Crown, and Mr. Q. Morrison was foreman of the jury. " 'lho premises were broken into on the Ist June list, entrance being effected by a side window. Some of the stolen property was. afterwards fonnd by the police in wbares occupied by the accused atOttihanga, where they were employed on a bughfefiing contract, _ The case had not concluded at the time' of going to press.