SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 50, 28 February 1913, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

AN ECHO OF WiAIHI. (.Per Press Association.) Auckland, February 27. At the Supreme Court, Walter Edmund Harvey was charged with perjury in stating at the inquest on Evans, killed during the Waihi riot, that he did not have a revolver at Karangaliake and had not pointed it at another miner. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, considering that the accused was suffering from severe mental strain, being without appreciation of the importance of what he said. The Crown had failed to establish intent to mislead justice. The prisoner was thereupon discharged. BLENHEIM SESSIONS. (Per Press Association.) Blenheim, February 27. In the Supreme Court to-day, in the case in which Jolm Francis O’Keefe was charged with the theft of a mail bag from the Moles worth coach, the jury returned a verdict that the evidence was not sufficient to justify a conviction. The prisoner was accordingly discharged. AN OLD OFFENDER. Wanganui, February 28. At the Supreme Court the man named Hughes who was charged with theft, and who has nearly thirty previous convictions against him, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment, and declared an habitual criminal.