SUPREME COURT

Northern Advocate, 11 February 1931, Page 7

SUPREME COURT

AUCKLAND SITTINGS

(Per Press Association.—Copyright.} AUCKLAND, This Day

A verdict ol' not guilty was returned hy tlit* jury in the case of Sidney Adams, ■who was charged in the Supreme (.'onrt with breaking, Metering and theft. The prisoner was discharged, Edward Johnson, alias Johnston, who was charged with a similar offence, pleaded guilty, and was remanded for sen tenet*.

A reserved judgment was given for the. plaintiff in the .Supreme Court this afternoon in a claim by Frances Hannah Sisley against George Powell in respect of the conversion of cattle and wrongly eviction from a farm in tin* Te Puke district. A total of £IB 30 10/ was awarded. Judgment on a counter-claim was given for the defendant for the sum of £2Ol 10/.

Three young men from Onehunga, John Bertram Hoggart (22), Charles Robert Hoggart (HD, labourer ami Raymond Holliday (18), labourer, stood iu the dock together at the Supreme Court yesterday. Their offence of breaking and entering and theft was described by counsel as the action of lanikins. While out rabbiting they broke into a house and stole a rifle, a banjo and a clock.

Mr Justice Smith sentenced John B Boggart to three years’ probation; Charles R. Hoggart. rvho.se comluet was described as “exceedingly unsatisfactory,” to two years in the Borstal Institute; and Halliday to two years’ probation. Solicitor Sentenced. Leslie Bruce Gilfillan, 47, of Hamilton. was sentenced by Mr Justice Smith., to two years’ reformative treatment on eight charges of theft of trust fuhds totalling £278. But for a medical report stating that Gilfillan had been suffering from severe illness, the judge said the sentence, would have been one year longer. Other Sentences, .Joseph Edward Cochrane, 31, a chef, received twelve months’ hard labour for bigamy; Thomas James Harvey (2d), two years’ probation for setting fire to his own house at Onchuhga; Howard Mawhiney Williams, a musician, 18 months’ reformative treatment for false pretences; Sargent John A ash (43), nine months’ imprisonment for false -pretences, forgery and Uttering a cheque at Opotiki; Sydney John Badams, alias Davidson (32), five years’ hard labour on a series of forgery Charges.