HEAVY CRIMINAL LIST

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1929, Page 13

HEAVY CRIMINAL LIST

SUPREME COURT IN TARANAKI >■ —— • FIFTEEN CHARGED WITH CRIME. SESSION TO OPEN NEXT TUESDAY.

One of the heaviest, if not the heaviest calendar ever presented to a judge at a quarterly session of th© Supreme Court in Taranaki will be presented to Mr. Justice McGregor when the next session opens in New Plymouth on Tuesday morning. It is expected the session will extend over at least a month. No less than 15 criminal cases for trial are already listed, included amongst them being a number of a serious nature. Nine of them are charges relative to breaking, entering and theft, and the remainder comprise one charge of unlawful carnal knowledge, one charge of indecent assault on a male, one charge of assault with intent to -do actual bodily harm, two charges of negligent driving so as to cause death, and one charge of the theft of a horse. Four prisoners who, have pleaded guilty in the lower court will come before the judge for sentence, all of them on charges relative to breaking, entering and theft.

.Six' civil cases are scheduled to be. heard before the judge alone, and one before the judge and a jury of 12. Included in the civil cases is a claim by the executor of the estate of the late John Poletti against Louis Albert Saxten for £2500 damages. . The case is the result of negligent driving on the part of the latter that resulted in the death of Poletti at Bell Block. A similar claim for £2500, arising out of a fatal motor accident, is that of Neighbour v. Frost. A case of a rather unusual nature is a summons for contempt of Court, in which Grey and Grey, a firm of solicitors, are concerned. Two originating summonses are set down for hearing, and to date there are three, appeals against magisterial judgments. Four motions for discharge from bankruptcy have been filed, and there are a number of miscellaneous matters. • The calendar of criminal cases is as follows: —

FOR TRIAL. Hunt', John. —Alleged assault with intent to do bodily harm. .Sales, Lawrence James. —Alleged indecent assault on a male. Jones, Allan William. —Alleged unlawful carnal knowledge. Bellringer, Sidney George.—Alleged negligent driving so as to cause the death of another. Lobb, Douglas.—Alleged negligent driving so as to cause the death of another. Barlow, Alfred William. —Alleged theft of a horse. .Sullivan, Melville.—Alleged breaking, entering and theft. Smith, James Earl.—Alleged breaking, entering and theft. Oakley, Sidney John. —Alleged breaking, entering and .theft. Keenan, George—Alleged breaking, entering and theft. » Knight, William Percival Leonard. —Alleged theft of postal packets. Keenan, Patrick Francis. —Alleged breaking, entering and theft. Smith, Leonard Edward. —Alleged breaking, entering and theft and alleged theft of postal packets. Stroud, Sydney William. —Alleged breaking, entering and theft and alleged theft of postal packets. _ Rudings, Arthur. —Alleged breaking, entering and theft.

FOR SENTENCE. Elliot, Raymond Jack Vernon.—Breaking, entering and theft, and theft of postal packets. White, William Cleland—Breaking, .entering and theft. Cleaver, Joseph Abraham. —Breaking, entering and theft and receiving. James, John. —Breaking, entering and theft. «.