SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16507, 7 August 1919, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 6. At the Supreme Court, Roy Albert Delaney, charged with committing a criminal assault on a girl nine years of age at Petone, was found guilty and remanded till to-morrow for sentence. DUNEDIN SESSIONS. DUNEDIN, August G, At the Supremo Court to-day Victor Fraser Kett was convicted of indecently assaulting a girl aged six. The foreman, in announcing tho verdict, added that the jury wore of opinion that in these cases of assault on children the birch should he used. Air. Justice Sim said it would be a matter of flogging. Tho Foreman; it is our recommendation that something ho done to stop these assaults if possible. Tne judge remanded prisoner for sentence, saying ho would consider the jury’s recommendation. Alexander Valentino AValqnist and I John Joseph M.'Clusky wore acquitted | on a charge of setting lire to a lint and Canadian flax. A lad named William Edward Gillespie was acquitted on a charge of attempted familiarity with a girl barely sixteen. . CHRISTCnURCII SESSIONS. CHRISTCHURCH, August 6. A verdict of not guilty was returned at the Supreme Court by the jury in the case of Jack Condon, charged with indecently assaulting a girl tinder 16 years of age. Tho jury added a rider that accused should leave the court without a stain on his character. In Hip Supremo Court, Charles John Fintey and his two sons, Charles James Flntc'v and Percy Harold Fintey, were found guilty of robbery wi(h violence.' The father" was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, and the sons to two years.