SUPREME COURT.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2578, 12 July 1882, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

CEIMINAL SITTINGS. This Day* [Before his Honor Mr Justice Williams.] The sitting cf the Court was resumed at 10 a.m. LAEOENY AS A BAILEE. James Wilkinson was indicted for having on May 27th stolen a mare, the property of James Armstrong, of which at the lime he was bailee. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and was defended by Mr Spaokman. Mr Martin appeared on behalf of the Crown. The case for the Crown was that the prisoner, who was a horse breaker, Lad the mare to break in and sell on commission with the consent of the prosecutor. Ho sold the mare without the concent, and was arrested on the charge. Mr Martin led evidence in support of the case for the Crown. Mr Spackman submitted that the indictment was bad on two grounds, viz,—l, That the prosecutor was only nineteen, and that, therefore, the property could not be laid in him in the indictment; and 2, That the prisoner had a lien over the mare, and therefore the prosecutor waa not in what was called “rightful possession.” His Honor overruled Mr Spaokman’s objection, and declined to reserve the points. Mr Spaokman having addressed the jury, His Honor summed up, and the jury, after retiring for some time, brought in a verdict of "Guilty,” His Honor sentenced the prisoner to six months’ imprisonment with hard labor. [Left sitting.]