SUPREME COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2581, 6 August 1895, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

CRIMINAL, SESSIONS.., , Tim criminal. cessions of tlie Supreme, Court c</mmoiio€d.( yuprerUay,; -*UO Honorthe-vit-hiof,.' . Mr /..G.nliy officiated as- Crown Prosecutor. . J.f.iaiIAND'JDIIS. . , The vfollowing .wore: -euipannollear. .as. Grand jury :4-Mnssrs.Qoorgo Wilson (foreman), Alfred, Ashbolt/L. H. B- Wilson, G, M. UiohtvrdßOn/i'W/.GasquQino, ,H, Eglmgton, S. D.J Baixaud/rWi/i J'.* Blundell, John Wilkins, W. T. Hildreth, P. T. J. Parti It, A. L. Littlejolin/cD'. T ,>'B. - Howdou ( {f X--Harty, >Wi - MoDowcß, ll.’ Kcmher, N. W. Worry,l ll.,Baker,' R.,; W: Marshall, Li, Hoggard-, ~J. ■ ilorrax,- E-- ■ Peaty and A.. Nicol. ;ta-ii.-unoti ‘ /.iM ina iioNoa’e.ciiAr.aE-■ ■ - 1 ' . Tho dmrgo to thoiGrUPd Jury.was a brief \ ono. His Honor said That with .the exception of-two the,; indiotraeilts., were: not Jon-, very serious offeuie:'/ nor:.i7oro tliuy ol.iiu exceptional. cchnractof/ioThote wore, .hown-. ever, two, caseai.Jiivolving- the crimo of murder., One : of .'theßb-'casßa camo from. Masterton, and judging, from what ho bad seen of, the depositions the Graad Jury’s tiiak would- not, boa, particularly. Imavy. one. Should, however, arty doubt; arise uu tho minds .of the ~G.iand Jury as to the insanity.of the accused/he desired to direct tho jufy., that . any' such question must bo erased, inasmuch as with the matter-, of :tbo,-sanity;: or insanity., of, a prisoner, tho Grand jury had nothing-to ,j|o. It was tho duty of the Bench to direct the common jury in such/matters-. The otiier charge' of murder, possibly R/ould ireaoixn r itself . into .ono of . manslaughter; Tho sitSah he roforred to took place in the •house «| -a Chinaman’ in thia' city, and re.■suited In tho death of .a woman. - The evi--donoe in the so appeared to bo moat .contradictory. -(Tim evidence went.to show it hat someone throw a irerosone# lamp which.'broke against the wall and- set lire to the -girl’s clothes. ;iAt to who threw tho; lamp, however, .there appeared to/be a gxprflict of evidence. Although ’ .there.! was doubt the lamp , wan .! -thrown, < there' nppeared to, boa,, donbfc as to - w| 10 actually;-, threw- it,, or . wh.ji.ber -the. •throwing was done with a view of accomplishing harm. , This, it would bo,the duty of the.-Grand. Jury to'ascertain'- There was another remarkable case on the calendar, and that was one in which the accused was indicted for: Affixing a trade-mark oh sowing maehinos. ■ with a view to . defraud.' The Legislature had .decreed that.it .was; punishable .to;.wrongfully apply t a. trademark to any description of mmehandiso—a box or anything else—with .the iateflti oll °' -defrauding, and'tho ouda .of proof whether, the. person had received authority rto uaaj; the trade-mark; rested with, the Accused,-r-s'i; ■;■-;■-- ’-y

TJSDE BILLB.' : -.1,:, ■>'. - : Trim, bills «wro found by the Grand Jury in- - the,..following' cases Martha Bieharda.iorsoU SHflhWfjgo- Draper, breaking, and entering; faiso!pxe** tonces; C. . dßrownU. VJ. Paulmier,-x' brealdilgi-. and entering ir*,-' 1 Philpot,’ alter Woods, forgery and uMfing ; Andrew .J- Somerville/ murder; Andrews Kennedy 1 'end; Joseph, Jewett, murder,! .Valentino Veras,, falsa.pretences i(two chargeS)-r;i James i i.fHso ; pretences p ■ ,P*; PWttk and; T, ■ Sebolfield.breaking i and i entering (three cimgm i and B.D, BAvoy,. fraudulently using A trade-mark. -idc.'-i-;.'-' r -vo««t»o ! aj» pTrnniNO.' - ■-/ F. Philpot,'against whcm there - wore several charges 'of forgoing ..sffd uttering •cheques -for ' 9itri.ll -amounts ,on Wellington l tradesmen;- 1 pleaded 1 gmlfiy sipou each mdidtiuent, and was remanded / for sentence' till s the following morning. '■' 'btEAPIWO- 1 ,1 ■Georgo Draper,'quite ' a youag man, winder instructions from ' his. cdunsol (Irf r Jellicoo), pleaded'guilty to stealing soVeral small articles of merchandise from' the ship chandlers’,, store ‘of, Messrs L. •• * .Mills, K-athcrsten , Street. Tho prisoner svas engaged nS engine driver in a sawmill .ad joining Messrs Mills’ store, and early one morning lie was caught in Mills’ store. Mr Jollicoe applied that his client might bo admitted to probation. Tho .prisoner bad hitherto borne' tu* Asiecllont character, and had since the death' of his father, J2. months ago, been tjhofuato »WJWf $ .to,®.mother'’And trryldnyalid.sistcirs. ■e j ...l a,; Hie Honor remanded tho accused tili l Thursday for''tho Probation Officers rojmrt, add meanwhile jjdtowed , him , out onp bail on tho 'recognisance of -3fr M. Waddell, 1 bis late-employer,' who gave ths Jftd an ad.uiirahlo' 'character; and expressed fc&. in- 1 tention of re-employing him. ■ VAX,SE Vaß'rE/rCKS. William Smith, an aged man, was arraigned and -pleaded, not guilty to obtaining -Gs «sd‘ by' false xepxqseptariona from Goo. A. J |£aw's9n, «n the 16th"April' -g ■ j Mr Jas‘.|Mc£aughlan was foreman of .tho jury. The pcitoaor jyhs defended by ID'! JeHieoe? 1 ? . ,jt-' x-.i- < v,-1 The jtify retired before, J, o clock, but, at 10 p.m., not agreeing, they (verb locked up ter the night-/ : (~ . and euteiunq. ... Threa ' boys,; pmnod - respectively Brown, ''Johu'.c6uVoy‘ai)d , Jno.' paulmier; plcadod'nqt guilty, of, breaking and-enter-, ing this work-shop, .ef Charles ~ Cathie, manufacturing dottier, Maimers street, on tho night .-of,, Juno 4th, and steeling, therefrom a, quantity et men's, and boys’ clothing,’valued at dhiCl. ,- Mr J. Standbn was chosen foreman of tho jury, and tho prisoners .were defended by Mr Wilford. ,' , , Tho wise occupied th©. cf *s*® Magistrate's .Court, only a,_. short, while, ago, on which oijeasion, it was fully reported.' Mr <Catiie’s warehouse .was broken open on tho .night of tho 3rd .of June and on the following day tho police discovered a portion of 'tho sfojom afiisJos in tho possession of the- mother .of quo .of the accused, whilst.another portion of the ■ stolen goods' was‘subsequently found concealed at a township on the Manaiwy.tu /Railway . line, whore the’ ‘ prisoners ma discovered working at bushfoUing 1 . n The hearing of,the case at,6 oTclbelc was :adjoumo<|'td tho/übit'day.,' and the jury were porlnittad io.leayio tho Court- ..- ;