SUPREME COURT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11863, 29 May 1909, Page 7

SUPREME COURT.

"..■•■' (Per Prees Association.) ' DUNJrt)IN, last nL 3 ht. The Supreme Court criminal sittings we're, completed to-day. Matthew Cliristie, '.was .':" aente'need to . f=ix months' imprisonmont >. nnd ordered to receive 15 fashes for irideceht . a ssault on a young' girl; Sidney McDonald was acquitted on the Siune charge, as it was not shown that McDonald was a-;, party with Christie 'to the" offence. Michriel McDonnell \vas found not guilty of attempting to defeat the ends," of by bnbery. 'No eyidenoe'^ ,av^is offered- in a second chavjofe, arid his; Honor directed that- a verdict of not jrullty should be roturnd. WELDINOTON, Inst ni^ht. William Knox pleaded gnilty to breaking and entering the promises of Robert Carr, and -was,' remanded. f<) rsentence. Roland Oliver • 'Da vies, for. horse stealing at Kaeo, received a- sentence of two years.' ■ K .'" ' „ : " ''■'• PAI>MERSTON N., this day. Tn a . very . complicated casein which William Joseph Sklenars sued Frederick Robinson for possession of the racehorse' Rangihaeata oi v its value, £400, as Avell ii.s £220 Winnings and damages £100, heard before* -Mr Justice,. Chapman, the jury, after tliree and n. half hours' retirement; ftffiftd -that plaintiff wa» lawfully the owner, and entitled to £400, tho value, AiKly £100 damages. :■ Jxidg: hiont ytuti ' -def e'i'i*e.d till' Monday for.argu. .ments'-'on legftl- points, ,tthj£ hor.«se to he in the handsi ; of receiver in tho j meantime.