SUPREME COURT

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1936, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

MOTORIST’S TRIAL.

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NEW PLYMOUTH, August 10. The Supreme Court sessions opened to-dav Mr. Justice Ostler presiding. Of the three bills of indictment presented two related to charges against motorists, alleging negligence causing death A true bill was returned against slmuel Edward George Hawke, charge<t with negligently driving a mottntruck so as to cause the death ot a mStor-eycllet. After the i”7. nanelled the Crown asked that it tie ikept together for the four days the trial is expected to last. f . rand No bill was returned by the Giamt Jury in a case in which Edward Bakei, who was charged with neglig ent y driving, causing the death of • tine Vivian, aged eight. Bakei as charged The child was waiting at for a tram-ear when Baker backed a lorry out ot a feme street the wheel of the vehicle passing over the child, who died shortly aftowards.

GISBORNE’S REPUTATION. GISBORNE, August 11. The Supreme Court sessions opened this morning, with jmly one case for trial Mr. Justice Blair congratulated the district on having nta " ie( J its reputation, as one of the most crime-free in the Dominion. A true bill was returned agai ° s Tahiti Pohi, charged with indecent . assaulting a girl, aged ten An application for in the case wherein Tahiti Toki charged with indecent assault on a young girl, was refused by Mi. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court to-day. Tho Crown objected to the application on the ground that the girl was not a Maori according to the Act. The .Judge said that although he <• tried many cases where Maoris were involved, he never had such a request before. AT INVERCARGILL.

INVERCARGILL, August 11. The Supreme Court opened before Mr Justice Kennedy, who congratulated the district on the lightness of the calendar. _ , . , George Saunders Ellis, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for assaulting a teacher. „ , , Philip Sidney Donaldson, for breach of probation order, six months’ imprisonment additional. William David James Nicol, torgery and uttering, two years’ probation.