SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 147, 14 August 1911, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, August 14. Ibo criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened this morning. Judge Chapman, in charging the Grand Jury, said .that though the greater number of the cases wore of tlio most ordinary kind, there wore some of a serious nature, and one or two of an exceptionally shocking kind. He was sorry to sec session after session the same feature in a very marked degree—he referred to file cases of sexual crime. The severe sentences passed did not seem to reduce the eases. There had been too many such cases, and there must be a very unhealthy state of .affairs, morally sneaking. What was described by Mr. Justice Chapman as ono of the most shocking i a.' : ;; tnat lain over been before the Court was hoard to-day, when Roy Lawton. I I years of ago, was charged with eonuait.ting iape on a girl of Ihe liny did not blame the girl. Accused said he was the son of a widow who was kit with 17 children. The boy was committed to an industrial school.