SUPREME COURT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 28

SUPREME COURT.

AUCKLAND, February 12. John M'Namara, a married man, found guilty of indecently assaulting a. youn« girl, was this morning sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour. February 14. At the Supreme Court Criminal sessions to-day a young man named Win. Holland) was found guilty of robbory with violence from a woman in Parrcll on January 17, and was remanded till to-m<nrrow for sentence. CHRISTCHURCH. February 12. William Zimmerman, charged with assault with intent, pleaded that he was about to marry the girl, and sentence was. deferred. John Sago was acquitted on ai charge of forging orders given by customers for advertising. The accused had stood -his trial twice be-fore, the jury disagreeing each time. William Thoma3 Felton was also acquitted on a charge of manslaughter by negligently driving a motor car along the Riccarton road on December 5 The car came into collision with a heavvi cart, and George Tanered de Montalk, one of the passengers in the car. was killed. It was urged for the defence that the accused possessed all the- skill that could be legally required of him, and that ne had not been guilty of gross negligence. February 13. William Zimmerman was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for improper intimacy with a girl under 16. Accused! said that the girl told him she was 19 yean* old. He was willing to marry her. H^ Honor said he had carefully considered the case. His duty was to enforce the law, and make it known by enforcing it. Me ha<a punished Maoris for the same offence, anc« it was much moro necessary in the case o| Europeans. J. C. Bagnall, forgery and uttering, was sentenced to two years and! declared an habitual offender. An order was made that on the expiry of hie sentencfli ho be kept in a reformatory in «c«danoe with the provisions of the act. WilliaM Knight wm sentenced to 18 months imprisonment on a charge of breaking and entering and stealing jewellery to the value of £60. George White, a tramway conductor was arraigned on a charge of perjury.The charge was based on the evidence given, by the accused when an information was laid against him in an affiliation case at the Magistrate's Court at Christchurch on December 11. The jury failed to agree and a second trial has been fixed for Monday.

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