SUPREME COURTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3748, 6 October 1886, Page 2

SUPREME COURTS.

(By Tbieokapu.) Wellington, Oct. K. In Hie Supreme Court to-day the charge of jewel rol)bt?rv from Freeman's is going on, and will probably lust most oF the day. James Mitchell, alias McKenzie, for the jewellery robbe J, waa found guilty, and sentenced to lire Tears 1 penal servitude. Tha Maori ca?CB wiJl be taken to-morrow. Ckristckurch, Oct. 5. In I lie Supreme Court George Joseph Russell, charged with forgery, was acquitted. Dcnbdik, Oct. 5. At the Supremo Court George Godfrey was found guilty of stealing a watch*. Sentence was deferred. The jury wished nt first to .find that ho had only pawned the watch, but this was not accepted. John Pomeroy was found guilty of forging and uttering, and sentence iv each cisc was deferred. John Duekett, charged with rnpo on h : s stepdaughter, 11 years of age, wr.s found not guilty. In the case of How Chew Sing, who pleaded guilty to robbery from a dwelling, Mr Galloway appeared for the defence, and asked that the prisoner should bo dealt with under the "First Offenders Act. The judge said it was doubtful whether he could entertain the application, as the act was intended to apply prima facie to British subjects and Euro* . peans, and ho saw some difficulty m the way of applying it to foreigners. He did not want . , to exclude th»m from the benefit of tfeil Act, ;.

but prima facie ho should say tho Legislature had not taken their caso m viuw. lho case was ordered to stand over.