Supreme Court Sessions.

Southland Times, Issue 10200, 4 July 1889, Page 2

Supreme Court Sessions.

♦ [By Telegraph.] Wellington, July 3. Allendale was found guilty of: stealing a aafe^from Feilding Post Office. Evidence "was given connecting him in various ways with the crime. He had been in the tovvnahip under an assumed name and afttr the robbery was given a lift by a woman on the way to Palmereton while be was carrying a heavy parcel. He had written to Wellington for a frame saw suitable to work iron with and a portion „ , /•_ i •«!_._ » .cc.

or each a saw was iouna in me posi omc<*. His landlady missed a screwdriver and crowbar, and these two were found on the Bcene of the robbery. His Honour took occasion to remark that in" the present state of the law the prisoner could only be indicted for breaking into* a counting house : there was no mention in the Act of such establishments as a poet office. This was absurd and required alteration. He sentenced Allendale to ten yearn' penal servitude. Chbistghubch, July 3. Two mcD, charged with larceny and sheop-3tealiDg, were acquitted. The in dictnient against Luke Perham for inde cent assault, was quaehed. Mr Stringer on behalf of the accused moved to quasfa the indictment on the ground hat the provisions of the Vexation-* Indictmen" Act, 1870, bad not been complied with.. Accused had been chargsd before Justices with haying burglariously broken aod entered the dwelling bouse of Sarah Munday with intent to coinurt a felony, and bad been committed lor tiial upon auch charge. No indictment however wan presented for burglary, the charge being altered to one of indecent assault. Mr Stringer contended that thia course was not perm'seiblo ; referred to sections 2 and 4 of the Vexatious ladictrnentß Act ; ci'ed Repina v. Bradlaugh, 47 Law Times, 477, and K Jtscoe's Criminal Evidence. Tfie Grown Prosecutor replied, contending that the proper course bad been adopted. Hi* Honour deferred his decision until later in the day when he gave judgment quashing the indictment..