SUPREME COURT.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12722, 18 February 1910, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

SENTENCES AT AUCKLAND. LUniteu Press Association.] Auckland, Feb. 17. At the Supreme -Unir! fo-Uay, Thomas Patterson was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for perjury. Horace "Wilson, for indecent assault on two children, was ■ sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour, and a flogging oi ten lashes. A Maori named tiohe "JL'areha, charged with an oUtnce against a girl under .l 6, was also sentenced to hve years' imprisonment. Palmerston Nc.th, l«eb. 17. At the Supreme ' Court, to-day Archibald Muir " was' charged witn stealing cheques to. the value «1 eight hundred pounds. The jury disagreed. A new trial was ordered. Abraham Connelly was found guilty of an indecent assault on a little girl, aged seven years, his adopted daughter. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment.