SUPREME COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15922, 7 May 1912, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

[Phi Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 6. The Supreme Court criminal sessions opened beforo Mr Justice Chapman, who. in his charge to the grand jury, remarked that the calendar was the shortest in his experience in Wellington. His Honor called special attention to the case of Richard Bigge, committed from Masterton by justices on a charge of stealing a horse and cart. "No case." said his Honor, "was made out for his committal. The prosecutor said ho sold the accused the horso and cart and his grievance apparently was that he did not receive his money. At the worst that was the case of a man running away without paving his debt. The sale took place in. 1003. If the evidence was as indicated the jury would see that no case of stealing had been made out."

The grand jury returned "no bill" in Bigge's case.

James Purcell O'Brien; an old man charged with indecently assaulting a boy, was found guilty of common assault. Sentence was deferred. A case against James Henrv Hope, a middleaged man, charged with having illegally sold liquor to a police probationer, was not finished when the Court rose for the day.