SUPREME COURT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 215, 29 August 1911, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

I ALLEGED SLANDER. | [re a prksh association.] i ’ • ' . I Palmerstoif ■ I The Supreme. Court, the t | presiding, is cx-cupied tjFd I slander case ot U. A. W.i' I Byron Brown, in which Li?’ 'j: claimed. A jury o£J '• 1 pa nulled. ’ ’ Counsel for plaintih, M r openiu the case, said t 1 ; ■ . a chi-.-ufarnter and the d< i . o •k-eper, 1-t 11 of Otaki, 1 ' Jk- 1 sland-r, which afleded Iyn-, to .os • n.fll-tiou to various persons duroig ; no n<>fljd from December to June '-pt. Palmerston N., Aug. 28. th re-tiial of Cornelius Almphy, James McKenzie, and Frederick Richard James Kinchant for assault, causing actual bodily harm on Allred Badcock, of Mataioa, the jury, after 31 horns, found Murphy guilty of rominon assault under great provocation, and the, other two not guilty.

WHARF THEFT CASE. Auckland, Aug. 29. The rase for the prosecution .n he wharf pilfering cases having close! »ii the Supremo Court, Counsel for I liman stated that he did not call any evidence in del cnee of his client. Air. Reid, counsel for Haddon, called witnesses who deposed that nis d- nt had lived an honest life lor a . <m<ide.--able time, and suggested that he was designedly- mid deliberately kept in a state of intoxication so that he could be made a scapegoat and made to boar the brunt of the offence if detection followed.