SUPREME COURT
SESSIONS AT TIMARU. Per Press Association. TIMARU, July 26. The Supreme Court opened today before Mr Justice Herdraan. There are four criminal cases, and one prisoner for sentence. Eric R. Jackson on a charge of false pretences, came up for sentence, and received a sentence of eighteen months’ imprisonment. William John Wills, labourer, charged with assaulting Joseph Mahoney and causing bodily harm by striking him on the head with a post, was fined £ls and admitted to probation for twelve months. A young man named Noel Ashton was charged with breaking the window of a bedroom in which two girls were sleeping, and dragging the blankets from one of them, scaring the girls and their mother: and on a second count with assaulting the mother when die was returning to the house after calling a neighbour. Accused was found not guilty on the first charge and guilty on the second. The defence was that some other person was guilty of tho first offence and that the accused was too drunk to know what he was doing when, he assaulted the mother.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10963, 27 July 1921, Page 4
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