SUPREME COURT

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1930, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS

MUNN MURDER CHARGE

[PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

AUCKLAND, May 6

At the Supreme Court, the Grand Jury returned true bills in all of the thirteen criminal charges, including the charge of murder against Arthur Thomas Munn.

A circus employee, Trevor Norman Goo,te, aged 20, was acquitted, of a charge of a serious offence against a girl under the age of 16 years in Whangarei.

Charged with indecent assault upon a boy in Auckland on March 20, Rich ard Stanley Sinclair, a labourer, aged 27, was found guilty. Sentence was deferred.

Charges were preferred against William Armstrong, aged 49, an insurance agent, of breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, and of assaulting his «on, Leslie Ernest Armstrong.

The allegations were that the accused visited his wife’s home on April 11 on tho night after he had been separated from her, broke in through a window, and endeavoured to assault his son with a razor. The hearing is unfinished. A plea' of guilty was entered by George ’Allen, aged 21, who was charged with negligent driving ,of a motor car, so as to cause bodily injury to three people. The accident happened on January 15 on the Ninety Mile Beach, when a lorry driven by Allen ran into the back of another vehicle that had come to a sudden stop. He was fined £3O, and was allowed to' retain his license.

WELLINGTON CASES.

WELLINGTON, May 6.

Found guilty in the Supreme Court to-day of charges of indecency, Reginald Carr Rex, a printer, aged 35, was remanded for sentence. Twenty minutes sufficed for the jury to return a verdict of guilty on both counts, with a strong recommendation to mercy, owing to the prisoner’s previous good character. John Charles Turvey, a young man, was charged with the theft of 80 sovereigns from a dwelling, and with receiving £64, knowing it to be dishonestly obtained. He was acquitted of theft, but was found guilty of receiving and was remanded for sentence.

The hearing of the case against George Frederick Murphy, who was charged with breaking and entering by day, with intent to commit theft and attempted theft from a dwelling, was adjourned until to-morrow. Accused pleaded not guilty. No evidence was called on behalf of accused.

TO-DAY’S PROCEEDINGS

WELLINGTON, May 7.

Charges of - theft of linen, cutlery and crockery, from the Anchor Shipping Coy., valued at £l3/15/2, against Norman Eric Walker and a joint charge against him and his wife of receiving the goods, are proceeding at the Supreme Court. George Frederick Murphy, on charges of alleged breaking, entering, and alleged attempted theft, was found not guilty.

* SPEED OF CARS.

PALMERSTON N., May 7.

Giving evidence at the Supreme Court this morning, a service car driver expressed the opinion that thirty-six miles an hour was not an unreasonable speed to pass an intersection, if the driver were certain no other vehicle was approaching the intersection.

The Chief Justice replied that a driver can never be certain. The time was coming when unless motorists exercise more caution, they will find themselves considerably restricted. The public will not stand the increasing toll of accidents for ever.