SUPREME COURT

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 February 1925, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

AUCKLAND SESSIONS. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, .Feb. 5. In the Supreme Court to-day, George Denton was charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Wm. Campbell,, tramway motorman, who. was knocked down by accused’s car on the Great South Road on November 29. He was found guilty of negligent driving caused by inexperience in handling the motor- car. Sentence ivas deferred.

Ronald Walker Young, school teacher, Was acquitted on six, charges of .decent assault. The defence was that the complaints had been deliberately invented. Edward Jack Cromer ,aged 27, was found guilty of issuing valueless cheques and sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. BIGAMY COMMITTED. WELLINGTON, Feb. 4. Joseph James Groomotte, charged with, bigamy again appeared before the -Supreme Court, this time being represented by Mr Cornish. The Chief Justice said prisoner had admitted the offence, but declared he had done so because his wife had acted improperly during his absence on active service. Prisoner was a Welshman who had changed his name from Howard to Groomotte and had gone- to South Africa. When he learned that his wife had been unfaithful, he had gon e through a form of marriage while drunk. His Honour said it was not a case which called for a- severe penalty, and he would deal with it on Saturday. MOTHER AND INFANT.

PALMERSTON N., Feb. 4. At the Supreme Court to-day, Eileen Bree.was charged that, at Otaki on November 14, she had murdered her newly-born child. The Crown Prosecutor, said the accused had been employed as a domestic servant by the occupier of a cottage o n Otaki beach. While there she had given birth to a child. Next morning the dead body of a male child was found near tli e 'water’s edge. The body was that of a healthy, full-time baby, with fullydeveloped lungs that had breathe!,!. Thq .child died from exposure and not by drowning. The jury returned a verdict of man. / slaughter, with a strong recommendation to mercy. Accused was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months. THE “CAT” ORDERED. . TIMARU. February 6. At the Supreme Court, Cha,ties Nolan, found guilty of carnal knowledge, with a girl under ten years, was sentenced to ten years’ hard labour, with ten strokes of the cat.