SUPREME COURTS

Southland Times, Issue 20171, 6 May 1927, Page 7

SUPREME COURTS

NORTHERN SESSIONS. SITTING AT AUCKLAND. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, May 5. At the Supreme Court, Charles Roy Banton, aged 23, taxi driver at Dargaville, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on a charge of an attempted offence on a girl aged 15. ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE. Auckland, May 5. Arising out of the assault at Mangere on April 13, when John Boys, formerly employed as a cook on the steamer Marama, was attacked and a suitcase containing four tins of illicit opium was stolen, Roy Morrison and Lawrence Vacey were found guilty of robbery with violence in the Supreme Court to-day. Sentence was deferred until Monday. ‘ ILLEGAL OPERATIONS. WOMAN SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS. Auckland, May 5. A sentence of seven years’ imprisonment was imposed by Mr Justice Stringer in the Supreme Court upon Hannah Matilda Dalton, a married woman, aged 54 (Mr Singer) who was found guilty on three charges of unlawfully using instruments upon women for an illegal purpose. Owing to the fact that accused is paralysed in one leg she was allowed to remain seated in the dock. DUNEDIN CASES. Dunedin, May 5. An intention to make an application to the Crown Law Office to enter a nolle prosequi was given by the Crown Prosecutor in connection with the charges of stealing £125 and abducting a girl at Clyde preferred in the Supreme Court against Arthur Cyril Bond. On a further count accused pleaded guilty to converting to his own use the proceeds of a cheque, the property of himself and E. J. Cameron. He was remanded for sentence.