SOUTHERN SUPREME COURTS.
[BY TELEGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday. At the Supreme Court to-day Wallace Herbert Stewart was charged with forgery. The jury returned a verdict that- accused was guilty of uttering a receipt, but did not consider it had been done with criminal intent. The judge said there was sufficient doubt about the verdict to make it desirable to obtain a decision of the Appeal Court as to the effect of the finding;. Accused, in the meantime, was admitted to bail. Frederick Percy Pileher, nineteen years of age, for forgery and larceny, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment without hard labour. Roderick JMcKenzie, an elderly man, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for committing a serious offence on two younggirls. Chrißtcuurch, Friday. In the Supremo Court David Whytock, a middle-aged man, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for indecent assault. George R. Fleming was acquitted on a charge of perjury. \
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13757, 23 May 1908, Page 5
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