SUPREME COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18468, 1 February 1922, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

(Fu United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 31. In the Supreme Court to-day before Mr Justice Hosking Ernest William Lowther, who had pleaded guilty in the lower court to forging and uttering at Palmtarstonl North, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, with hard labour. 1 Charles Armes, bigamy, was fined £25 or three months’.

James Edward, theft’ at Waipukurau, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, to commence at the expiry of a sentence ho is now serving, John William Cooke and Harry Newall, breaking and entering the railway station at Seddon, were placed on probation for two and a-balf years, and ordered to repay £25 each and the cost of the prosecution. James Healy, mischief at Taihape, where he broke windows valued at about £47. Prisoner, who had been in gaol three times on similar offences, was sentenced to one month, and ordered to pay £25 at the rate of 10s per month. <

Donald Cray, for false pretences, received a sentence of nine months, with hard labour.

Fmncis Douglas Still, Matthew Dickson, and Ivor Harwood, three youths, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and theft. Dickson and Still wore sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment, and Harwood was admitted to probation for three years. William Zimmerman, for a false declaration under the Marriage Act at Stratford, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment. (Hilaries Edward Weigel, for indecent assault on a male at Wanganui, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment