SUPREME COURT SITTINGS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12606, 9 March 1903, Page 5

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS

(Feb United Pbess Association.) INVEROABGILL, March 6. At the Supromo Court, Rosannah M'Coy, charged with stealing £21 and a oash-box from under the mattress of a bod in. a oountry house, was acquitted. Counsel made a vigorous on tho justices who refused bail to tho girl when there mis not a tittle of evidence preferred by tho polioe. His Honor said it was wrong' to lock her up for a week in such circumstances. • The alleged .offence was not serious enough to warrant suoh a oourse. , Tho trial of Dr Fullarton for alleged il'legtil practice was gone on with, but not finished when tho court rose. HOKITXKA, March 6. All Ohing, found guilty at the criminal sittings of committing an unnatural offenco on a boy of nine years, was sentenced to 18 months' 'hard labour. Tho Chief Juoticfl took a. more lenient view of the offence fromr the foot of the youth of the prisoner and tha excellent oharactor he had previously borne., In the case Eislop r. the Minister of Mines, 4he Chief Justiec roserved judgment. In" the case Cameron v. the Debenture-holders of tho Great Woodstock GoldTSlinihg Com- : pany, being a case stated by Warden Maofarlane, t! question arose whether plaintiff was a contractor under section 171 of tha Mining Act. Judgment was reserved. 7 NEW PLYMOUTH, March 6. Robert 0. 801 l was sentenced to two years for forgery and passing a valueless . cheque. The criminal businoss then ended. . Tho court was engaged this evening in a heavy civil aotion for libel and ekndes. brought by the Rov. Mr Huteon, Presbyterian minister at Stratford, againßt A. Morrison, a prominent member of tha church. Tha damages claimed are £3000.