SUPREME COURT.

Otago Witness, Issue 3611, 29 May 1923, Page 58

SUPREME COURT.

INVERCARGILL, May *4. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court opened to-day. The calendar is larger than usual. Anthony I’outery, breaking and entering at Gore, was sentenced to three years’ reformative detention, and Thomas G. Silk, theft and forgery, to three years’ imprisonment. May 23. At the Supreme Court John Thomas Gwynne, licensee of the Roval Mail Hotel, Lumsden, was found guilty of a charge of procuring an instrument knowing that it was intended t 0 be used for an unlawful purpose and also of supplying an instrument for an unlawful purpose. The hearing of the evidence occupied all day, and sentence was deferred till the morning. John Forrester, an elderly man, was charged with an indecent assault on a girl 12 years of **ge. The case lasted nearly all day, and tho jury, after four hours retirement, disagreed, and a nqw trial was ordered at the present sessions. John Francis Scully, for the theft of a w'ar loan certificate belonging to his mother, was admitted to piobation for two years on condition that he took out a prohibition order and kept away from racecourses. John Scully, for perjury, was fined £lO, the judge stating that accused had nothing to gain by his statements. An Invercargill Press Association message says that in the Supreme Court John Thomas Gwynne, hotelkeeper, of Lumsden, for supplying an instrument to his housekeeper for an unlawful purxiose, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. May 25. In the Supreme Court John Forrqgter, an old man who had been found suiitv of indecently assaulting a girl under 16 years of 'P Wiis »’• it! '■! »o -wot-" Hon f- v five years on condition that he does not leave his home after sunset without the permission of the probation officer or in the cotnn tnumfier of his family. Robert Hannah, charged with assault and found guilty, was ordered fo pay the cost of r ,- njo" ffi 1 ?? Michael "’puJeviile. charged with assaulting a constable and causing actual bodily harm, was released on probation for five years and ordered to pay the cost of prosecution (£22).