Supreme Court.
(Per Press Association.)
CHRISTCHUECH, Nov. 28. At the Supreme Court to-day Robert McCarthy was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for breaking and entering; a shop at Kaikonra.
The jury disagreed in the case of Harriet Sleitman, charged with having committed perjury by stating in a Magistrate's Court case thit a certain betting transaction took place within a shop instead of on the footpath outside. A young man named Alick Aimitage was acquitted for having 'ndecently assaulted a girl under 16 years. Herbert T>onald Jarvis was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for falsely declaring himself to be a bachelor when aPPb'"Dg for a marriage certificate when his wife was still living. William Knox was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, to take effect at the expiry of a sentence imposed earlier in the sessions, for breaking and entering and theft at Timaru. Henry EgaiT, charged jointly with Knox, was acquitted.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8149, 24 November 1905, Page 7
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150Supreme Court. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8149, 24 November 1905, Page 7
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