SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12866, 26 May 1905, Page 7

SUPREME COURT.

.Per Jfress Association. : { 25. The case against the ex-constables, Th^bicft 3 WP^arf - * tatids over, while ihe, charge against Moses, of foreaikrng and entering 1 into tho D.I.C. and stealing several articles, is biei»g heard. Mr Hanlon applied for a change ol venue in the Invercargill casesV-Fin-nerty and Prentice for rape, and F. Rogers for wilful d-antfsg'e to propert y_ on the ground that accused would not have a fair trial at Invercargill owing to public feeling and prejufdice against them. The Crown opposed the application, was refused. ■Dutoeidin, Way 25*

At the Supreme Court John Hamaa, charged with stealing a watch and pendaijrfej w.as^acquitt'ed. "-Thomas-- IMloses,- ex-constable, was charged with breaking and entering the D:I.C. warehouse, arid stealing. A second' coifnf "dHafgCd- him with stealing arid a third with receiving. Michael Henry , Reddi-ngton, a nightwatchman, denied , having ev«r given any. goods to > Moses. The jury returned a verdict of. guiHyi of receiving, and sentence was 'deferred. .^ )} .: v WeUington, May 26. Several prisoners were sentenced by the Chief Jiustice , to-day. 1 Francis Henry Jeffery, forgery and uttering, got eighteen! months ; Geo HicMon, forgery, was admitted to probation ; Joseph Ili'ffe, breaking an*d entering, nine months ; F. W. HWell, theft from a dwelliVg, ten jraonths.