SUPREME COURT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 109, 9 May 1923, Page 9

SUPREME COURT

SITTINGS ELSEWHERE,

(IX TMEOSAPI.—PRJSI ASSOCIATION.)

' AUCKLAND, Bth May. The Supreme Court criminal sessions opened to-day. Albert Joseph Payne, Harold Herbert Payne, and Charles Henry Cox were charged with breaking and entering at Whangarei, and alternatively with theft and receiving. Cox was acquitted on all charges. Both the Paynes were found not guilty of breaking and entering, but guilty of receiving. Harold Payne was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and Albert Payne to twelve months' imprisonDUftEDIN, Bth May. The Supreme Court sessions opened thisimorning, at which Mr. Justice Sim' was welcomed by the Law Society.

Richard Pickard Jones, who pleaded guilty to indecent assault on a boy, was fined £20. Counsel's statement showed that accused had an excellent war record, having gone with the Main. Body as a commissioned officer. He had been drinking heavily. The Judge said the assault was not very seriouß.

Archibald Campbell Sim pleaded guilty to obtaining £48 from the Tapanui Racing Club by falsely representing the trotting mare Dora Derby to be a |iare named Traylace. Accused was remanded for sentence till after the caae against James Proctor Nicholson has been heard in connection with the same offence.