SUPREME COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21021, 9 May 1930, Page 9

SUPREME COURT.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS., AUCKLAND. (Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 8. Permission to treat the principal Crown witness as hostile was given by Mr Justice Herdmah in the Supreme Court during the trial of Joseph Sullivan, charged with breaking amj enterin" a shop at Thames and stealing £33' in money. The witness was August Arns, who is serving a sentence for breaking and entering the same shop. In his evidence: he said lie had only a hazy recollection of seeing Sullivan, Taxed with his statement in the lower court, he said that both he and the accused went into the shop and ; got the money. Cross-examined, he said that drink was his trouble, and it caused hint to imagine all sorts of things. The accused was found not guilty.,-’ Two charges of abetting the commission of a. crime at New Lynn on the evening of February 3 were preferred against Harold John Windsor. The offences in which he was alleged to have participated were the breaking and entering of a store by two men who had pleaded guilty and attempting to break into a shop by the same two men. A verdict of guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy, was returned, and sentence was deferred. WELLINGTON. (Per 1 United Press Association.) WELLINGTON,’ May 8. Charges of theft of linen, cutlery, and crockery from the Anchor Shipping (Company, valued at *£l3 15s’ 2d, were preferred against Norman Eric Walker, and a joint charge him and his wife of receiving the goods. The jury found Walker not guilty, nad the prisoner was discharged. ‘ Mrs Walker was found guilty of receiving, with a strong recommendation to mercy, and was remanded for sentence. • James Burman and Walter Fraser Sheriffs Harneiss, alias William Fraser, pleaded not guilty to robbery with violence, assault with intent to rob, and assault. The party against whom the alleged offence took place-was Arthur Brice, and the amount concerned was £3. An attempt was made to show that the whole thing was a drunken brawl. After a retirement of, 30 minutes' the jury returned a verdict of guilty on the second count, and not guilty; on the first and third counts. The prisoners were remanded for sentence. A verdict of guilty was returned by the jury, in the case in which Patrick James Michael Heffron (aged 18) was charged with breaking and entering the shops of George and George, Newtown, and stceding goods to the value of £!>3 j 13s.