SUPREME COURT.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12403, 19 November 1908, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH. LUNiTEn Press Association.] Christchurch, Nov 18. At the Supreme Court Thomas | Jackson was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for robbery from the person. ; ' An elderly man named Alexander Johnson was convicted of indecently assaulting a child of five, sentence being deferred. Edgar Gustave Marck was indicted for that on October Ist he stole a t horse, gig, and set of harness ,of the i value of £41 9s, the property of Robert Forbes. He was convicted and. sentenced to two years' imprisonment and was declared an habitual criminal, his record being a very bad one. ' ,'• Auckland, Nov. 18. At the sittings of the Supreme Court to-day a Chinaman named Louia Yug, otherwise known as Shue Uock, wps arraigned on a charge ofj having on or about Augnst Bth last at Mt. RoskiU murdered a fellow countryman, named Fong Mong Chee. The jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter, and tho prisoner was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.