SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 301, 13 May 1913, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

CHRISXOHUBCH SESSIONS. * By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Tlie Supreme Court crimiual sessions opened to-day before Mr. Justice Dennis- 1 ton, who, in his charge to the gran* f» jury, said that the calendar' was a some- ** what heavy one. There were 18 indict- ' ments against 1? persons. Six of these * he regretted to say, were sexual cases! * lliey wero not very serious ones of ! their type, however, there being mo*e '" lewdness than anything else. Frederick William Bradshaw, whose sentence for ' theft was held over from the previous sessions to allow certain enquiries to- , be made, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, His Honor stating that but for prisoner's ago (56) he would have received a more substantial ;,erm. v Thos. Morton, who pleaded guilty to * •! charge of breaking and entering, WM .' sentenced to two years' imprisonment, 1 ' and warned that if he came before thecourt again he would be treated as an habitual criminal. John Bradley 2£" year of age, was sentenced to*'two months imprisonment for theft of -non*? and ordered afterwards to complete i" term of reformative treatment. Alexander Harold, 10 years of age, for indecent assault, Was sentenced to three vcars." imprisonment.