SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14683, 17 November 1909, Page 5

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

CHRISTCHURCH, November 16.

(Phi Uxited l'asss Association".)

AUCKLAND. November 15. At the Supremo Court to-day Wiliiam Duncan and Mark Craven Richards wore charged with having committed an afJ'.stiH, eaiwing actual hodiiy harm. The jury brought in a verdict in" •• Xot guilty ; ' against. Kichavds and of "Guilty "'of dnmkcr.nwis and common assault againut Duncan. _ Both wen- remanded pending tins hwiing u f a Un&n- eharzo against IticiUKk Frank Hav:tl:cn:e Sli'tlon? who hod pleaded guilty to five charges of forgery and one of t'alsilieation. was Mate-need to nine mouth/ imprijonimnt- with b-;<vl labour. William Cheeidey. who hail pleaded guilty to two charges of ihefi from a vessoi. was :-ni!oi:ced to one month's imprisonment, awl William Mile*, alia? Alfred German,'mi a charge of theft from the counting house <>;' ilvi" Auckland Tramways Company. um.> found •• Guiltr." oud remanded lor sentence. SVKLUXGTOX. :\ovMii;;r 16. . At the Sur.rctnc Conn to-day Honsid

Seaforth Jones, a lad who had absconded from the -Weraroa Training School, and who admitted several charges of theft, was committed to 'tho ISuriiham Industrial School. Alfred Langley and Roland John Hanger were acquitted on a charge of breaking into a tobacconist's shop at Mafiterton and stealing goods therefrom. Charles Taylor, a young man, found guilty of an unnatural mfenee, was sentenced to 10 years' hard labour, with 25 lashes with Uie cat o' nine tails.

At to-day'ci sitting of the Supreme Court Arthur Parkinson, on charges of false pretences and forgery, was sentenced to three years (indeterminate). The charge of murder against Roberts will be commenced to morrow.