SUPREME COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11750, 10 February 1919, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Asssociation Christchurch, February 10. At the Supreme Court, John Wrllle Hartley was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, on three charges of theft of pigeons of a total value of £BB. Auckland. February 10 At the Supreme Court the following prisoners were sentenced:— Charles Sherman. forgery and uttering at Thames, two years’ probation, his residence and occupation being subject to the approval of the probation officer; Ernest Brett alias Cecil Francis, indecent assault, live years’, impisooment; Alfred Herbert Brooks, indecent assault on a male, three years’ probation ; Johan Alfred Johansou, breaking, entering and theft, three yaers’, hard labour. Ernest William Durbridge, charged with a criminal offence on a girl, was found not guilty and the charge niemhsed. Thomas Savage, a Maori, charged with uigamy in having married a white woman in England while he has a Maori wife at the Thames, stated that be committed the offence under the imprassionlhat his brat wife had lett him, and he was entitled to remarry after a certain lapse of time. The judge believed the accused that the marriage was contracted in good faith and fined accused £5, and to pay coats of prosecution. Wanganui, February 10. The Supreme Court opened this morning, Justice Chapman presiding. The calendar for tiial is very light. Poro Koro Te Potni was charged with committing mischief. He went to a settler’s house before day break in August last and smashed every window in the bouse. The question of accused’s sanity was raised on medical testimony the Jury 'acquitted accused on the ground that he was not responsible for|bis action, and he is to bo detained during the pleasure of the Miusiter of Justice.