SUPREME COURT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2741, 5 January 1882, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS. . Auckland, Jan. 4. Tuki a Maori, for horse-stealing, received two years; and Richard Roberts, larceny, eighteen months. This afternoon, Alfred Morey and Elizabeth Stewart were convicted of robbery from the person, and sentenced to three year’s and six months imprisonment respectively. Mary Morey was acquitted. Christchurch, Jan. 4. The two remaining cases resulted in acquittal. One was Bridget Payne, for arson; the other J. Marshall, sheepstealing. Dunedin, Jan, 4.

The Grand Jury found no true bill against William Gawne, charged with wife beating, also against Mary Ann Watson, charged with manslaughter in having overlain her baby, while intoxicated.

Herbert Vincent, a deaf and dnmb man, pleaded guilty to two charges of forgery committed in October last. He was an old ofiender, and the Crown Prosecutor mentioned that the prisoner had been employed in the Public Works Department, and had forged the name of the head of the Department. He was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.

James Wilson, aged 17, was found guilty of larceny from a miner’s hut at Cromwell. It was mentioned that he had broken out of gaol there and tried to raise a loan from a local banker on the security of the house ho had just left. The jury recommended him to leniency. The Judge deferred sentence.

John Johnston, on a charge of horse stealing at Palmerston, was found not guilty by the direction of the Judge, the evidence shewing he had been left in charge of the prosecutor’s horses, John Dupree was found guilty of stealing fowls. The prisoner was a policeman and had - stolen fowls from premises he had been asked to watch. Sentence was reserved-! Mary Lloyd, a servant girl, pleaded guilty to robbing her mistress of jewellery. She was sentenced to two months without hard labor, and was ordered to be kept isolated. E. Smith,who pleaded guilty to a charge of assault on a little girl, with intent to commit rape, stated that he was drunk. The Judge said he would not order a flogging in this case, but would sentence prisoner to four years’penal servitude. Frank Thompson, who committed the impudent theft atWatson’s Hotel on New Year’s Day, pleaded guilty. Sentence was deferred.