SUPREME COURT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 February 1926, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

INDIAN HAWKER CONVICTED OF FORGERY.

(by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 9. The re-trial of Sana Fakir Kara, an Indian hawker, was continued m the Supreme Court to-day. Accused was charged with having forged specifications for the building of a motor body, purporting to. have been signed oy Leonard Kerr, of Te Puke, and also with having attempted to cause Mi Justice Alpers to act upon the document as genuine. , , ... The jury returned a verdict ot guilty, and the prisoner was remanded until to-morrow for sentence. JURY DISAGREES. AUCKLAND, Fob. 0. In the Supreme Court to-night the jury was unhide to agree in the com of 'George Bevington Rowe aged 30, who was charged with incest Ane trial was ordered to lake place at the ,ie The Charge against the accused was that he committed the offence on oi about December 20 last. The jmy. after being out lor an hour, returned to ask the meaning of the words on oi about December 20.” Mr Justice Herdman said it did not have to be proved that the offence took IS actnaW on the data mentioned. A matter of a few days was neither here nor there. , .. The foreman: “Could we extend it to 111 Hi? Honor: “'Oh. I don’t know about th After a brief discussion, the judge decided to submit two issues to the in.ry. These were whether the accused committed the offence and, if so, orij ci about what days. The ffii > i<Tn<-d H<oiin and on returning three bonis later reported a disagreement as stated.