SUPREME COURT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10780, 31 May 1911, Page 1

SUPREME COURT.

■-/ (Per Pujess A'ssocUtion.) Timaru, May 30. The Supreme Court wiminal sessions ope/ied to-3ay.. Donri in liis chafge io the grand jury, said tliie calendar was a very short one, and •containea ho cases of a serioiis character. 'No bill was found against Grace Paliner for assault ivith intent, to harm ilieiv husband. George Arthur Boyd, a letter carrier at Temuka,.'.was charged with destroying postal matter/ and was ordered to:come-t® for sentence when called upon.' Harold Laybourne, - for forging' a school certificate to enable ihim 'td get ihto the' Railway Deparfc•merit, was sentenced to tbree months. ilnVthe last and most serious; of three criminal cases •: dealt' witli this session tlie clrarge 'of setting fire to wheat stacks valued at £7O, the. jury found tlie prisoner not guilty. Accused s' accqiint indicated that' it was accidental. • Palmerston North, Mqy'3o, The Supreme Court- opened to-day beforb, Mr justice Chapman. Wilson Howard' was found guilty of receiving a sheep dog knowing it to have been dishonestly come by. The jury added a recommendation to mercy. Prisoner will be sentenced to-morrow morning. Wilfred Miirr, of Martoiv, was charged with: unlawfully and carnally knowing a girl under 'l6 years of age, and was found not: guilty. Accused; had -married the girl siiice the lower Court proceedings, and- she refused to. .give evidence againkt liini. : ' ' y ■ Invercargill,'May dU. Tl\c Supreme Court tias opened. 'Mr Justice Williams, addressing i the grand jury said their- AVOulo.' oc very light, there' being only two.-cases, one of arson (setting ; fire to a. stack of oats) and the other -.carrtal knowledge. Thomas Herald; (18) iilehded guilty to breaking and was admitted to probation for twelve .months. Two y'ouflg '.ime:® '(EdWai'di Mitchell and William ;FiWn): 'pfeaded giiilty to_ breaking dild entering. : Finn'- : was. admitted to■■ probation ":for 'twelve' months, and Mitchell \Vi's Senterfced" to'. reformative, treatment" "for ir a period "not exceeding two'yeaftV The charge of 'arson against Patr'ifck 'DevereaUX- resetted in a verdict" 'df guilty; : and; was der ferred'. . '