SUPREME COURT.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2056, 11 January 1887, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association Wellington, Jin. 10. The Supreme Court was occupied all day hearing the charge against Williams, seamen of the ship Timaru, for stabbing the first officer. A verdict of guilty was returned. At the Supreme Court Jellieoc, counsel for Charles Chcymol, said ho did not intend to apply for a change of venue, He felt that what he had previously sajd in reference to the Union Bank might equally apply to other towns in N.Z., iu which the bank was carrying on business. The Bank had branches in the chief towns of the Colony and the objection he had made to the case being tried in Wellington might hold good as regards other places in New Zealand. Mr Justicepllichmond in accepting the intimation made a few re i arks regarding the tendency of the present day to prejudice eases by ill advised remarks, and especially commenting severely on the levity of newspapers, in speaking of such a serious thing as a charge of murder as “The Timaru sensation” Ho considered thiswas absolutely shocking. He further remarked that a great deal of scope for tbe prejudicing of eases was given by the fact that preliminary enquiries before Magistrates had been allowed to develope more into trials than mere stating oiprima facia cases as origin ally intended. .