CRIMINAL SITTINGS

Evening Star, Issue 21709, 2 May 1934, Page 15

CRIMINAL SITTINGS

[Feb Unitso Press Association.] CHIUSTCHUKCH, May 1. The quarterly Session of the Supreme Court was opened to-day. Of . the six prisoners for trial one pleaded guilty, and three were tried and found not guilty during the afternoon. Edward Milner, who was charged with supplying a noxious thing to a woman, pleaded guilty, and was remanded until Thursday for sentence. Charles Patterson and Benjamin John O’Connell were found not guilty of robbery with violence. James ’ M'Givcrn, a farmer, aged sixty-two, was charged with negligently driving a motor car, thus causing the death of a motor cyclist, Percy Reynolds Philpott, at Kaiapoi, on January 30. It was alleged that a head-on collision occurred when M'Givcrn passed another vehicle. He was found not guilty. PALMERSTON N., Aby 1. Congratulations were extended to the district by Air Justice Fair in the Supreme Court to-day on the comparatively light calendar. “ The, Palmerston North district has a good reputation in that respect,” His Honour added in his charge to the grand jury that a Welcome feature was the absence of cases, criminal or civil, arising out of injuries caused by motor collisions. John Spain was found guilty of forging an endorsement to a cheque for 15s and with uttering. Leniency was recommended. Tho prisoner was remanded for sentence until to-morrow. Raymond Moran and Archibald Henry Sweidbruck, who were jointly charged with the theft of six horses and a foal at Waiouru and with receiving were found guilty on the first count and were remanded for sentence.' The jury recommended leniency in the case of Sweidbruck.