SUPREME COURTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3287, 10 April 1885, Page 2

SUPREME COURTS.

(By Telegraph.) Wbllikgtoh, April 9. At the Supreme Court, James Jones, for larceny, received twelve months ; Thomas Watson, for horse-Btealing, twelve months t .• and George Broad, for horse-stealing, twelve months. Thomas Edward Price, for perjury, was acquitted. Chbisxohuboh, April 9. At the Supreme Court to-day the most of the time was occupied with the trial of Austin Tyrell, John Arthur Cotton, and William Peacock, accused of rape, which resulted iv a verdict of not guilty against the three, it having been elicited for the defence that the woman was to a certain extent a consenting party. Eli Jones, for forging a cheque for £8 ss, was sentenced to two years* hard labor ; and William Ehind, for larceny from a dwelling, to eighteen months'. George Barker, an old offender for petty offences, was convicted of robbery with violence from a girl under 14, and was sentenced to frre years' penal servitude. Dusedik, April 9. In the case of Myall and Eastwood, robbery with violence, the jury were unable to agree and were discharged. Alexander Fleming was acquitted on the charge of childbeating. In sentencing Carrie Fleming, HU .. Honor said : —Prisoner, I am unable to agree with the suggestion of your counsel that m flogging these poor children you acted from an error of judgment only. On the contrary, it seems to me from the depositions and what I have heard to-day that your conduct evinces you were actuated by cruelty of mind, and ib is fortunate that a charitable neighbor inter* fered and tried to stop your proceedings. There is no doubt that both the boy and the little child received gross ill-treatment at your hands — ill-treatment which appears to be altogether without justification. Standing m - the position which you do to them, it was - your special duty to treat them with kindness. The prisoner, who was greatly affected, was then sentenced to two years' imprisonment.