SUPREME COURT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 197, 18 August 1909, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNjEMN, Aug. 18

Louis Morns, $ho was.sentenced to ;a month's f imprisonment for not keeping proper books, was ordered to be treated as a first-class misdemeanant. ' ■" ■ ■'■ ■■■• ■. .■■,■ ■•• ■■■'-~. - ■

WELLINGTON, Aug. 18. In the Supreme Court to-day, Albert Charles a young man, charged with.the theft of a hjorse, set up the plea ihat he was not responsible for his '.'actions. It was stated that he was the son of first cousins, and had been responsible for strange conduct at times, but had no criminal intent. The jury found him guilty,, with a recommendation to mercy. Sentence was deferred.