SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 11, 29 August 1911, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

PALMERSTON SESSIONS. (Per Press Association.) Palmerston N., August 28. At the Supreme Court to-day, before Sir R. Stout, a decree nisi was granted to Nellie Bono against E. S. Bono, for desertion, and to Edna H. Edwards v. Arthur Edwards, for drunkenness and failing to provide. In the re-trial of Cornelius Murphy, James McKenzie, Frederick Richard and James Kiuchant, for assault causing actual bodily harm on Alfred Badcock, of Mataroa, the jury, after three and a half hours, returned and found Murphy guilty of common assault under great provocation, and not guilty against the others. WHARF PILFERING CASES. Auckland, August 29. The case for the prosecution in the wharf pilfering cases having been closed in the Supreme Court, counsel for Ehrman stated that lie did not intend to call any evidence in defence of his client. Mr. Reid, counsel for Hadden, called witnesses, who deposed that Hadden had lived an honest life for a considerable time, and suggested that ho was designedly and deliberately kept in a state of intoxication so that he could he made a scapegoat, and made to hoar the brunt of the offence if detection. followed.