SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13832, 20 February 1907, Page 3

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

(Pi* TJkitep Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 15. At the Supreme Court William Holland was sentenced to twelve month? for robbery ■with violence. Mr Justice Denmston commented severely upon tho'defence, which made unsustained allegations against the character of the female prosecutrix. A young man named Claude Marmont was found not guilty on a charge of indecently assaulting a littlo girl at Newton, and was disciiareed. WELLINGTON. February 17. Arthur Law, chargcd at the Supremo Court, with having kept an office for betting purposes, was acquitted. February 18. Patrick Francis Brcsnahan, who was charged at the Supremo Court to-day with having attempted to extort money from Ed?av Hyde, was acquittccl. •' The Divorce Court made a. decree nisi in the case of Scoones v. Scooncs, a, wife's petition. In the, ease of Spencer v. Spenecr, a husband's petition, an order was lii.idc for the restitution of conjugal rights within one month.

CHRISTCHTJRCH. February 13 . At tho Supreme Court to-day two young men named George Pnterson and William .Tohn Pnterson, who had pleaded "Guilty" in the lower.court, to a. charge of stealing jewellery valued at, £100, were admitted to probation for two years. In t.ho case of George White, who was charged with perjury, the jury disagreed a second time, a-nd a new trial was fixed for the next sittings.

In divorce decrees wore granted in the eases of Molynea.ux v. Molyneaux and another, a husband's petition on tho ground of adultery: Murphy v. Murphy, a, wife's petition on the ground of habitual drunkenness, cruelty, and failure to support.; Anderson v. Anderson, a wife's petition on tho ground of desertion; Proctor v. Proctor, a. wife's petition op (lie ground of habitual drunkenness and failure io sunport; Lnii.li v. Lflitli. a wife's petition on tho ground of adultery; Duke v. Duke, a husband's petition on the, ground of adultery.