CRIMINAL CASES

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 18, 21 July 1932, Page 12

CRIMINAL CASES

SUPREME COURT TRIALS

A CHARGE OF MURDER

Present" indications arc that thcro will bo fourteen criminal cases fok trial at the quarterly sessions of the Wjellington Supreme Court, opening before Mr. Justico 'Seed. on Monday morning. The indictments include a charge of murder,' two charges of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, a charge of negligent driving thereby causing death, a charge of discharging a ■ firearm', with > intent to do grievous bodily harm, and two charges under the Bankruptcy ,Act. It.is also probable that the two men who were bofore the Magistrate 's Court yesterday, charged with robbing a Chinese in Pirie street and using violence, will stand their trial. . The murder aharge is against a youth in respect of the death of a little girl at-iUpper Hutt on 15th April; The charges of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm are a sequel to a liotel fracas in Wellington, in which two men wcie allegedly slashed with.a razor. The accused against whom the charges under tn'o' Bankruptcy Act are made is a mah'wliq won £3000 as first prize in the Free Ambulance Art Union. He is charged with (1) being a bankrupt lie concealed'property since or within two months' of "the date of an unsatisfied judgment; and (2) with bringing about his bankruptcy by gambling or unjustifiable extravagance. ' A bus driver is the accused against whom tho charge is made of negligent driving, thoieby causing death. It isi a Masterton case, and is a sequel to a level crossing fatality on the evening of- 9th April, when a bus conveying a party, of young people to a daneo was struck by a train.

The charge of discharging a firearm with intent to do grievous bodily harm is against a Maori. It is a Carterton case.

In addition to the eases mentioned there are indictments involving charges of theft, breaking and entering and theft, receiving stolen property, indecent assault, and carnal knowledge.