SUPREME COURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13677, 20 August 1908, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 19. At the criminal sessions of the Supremo Court today, James Smith, alias Griffs, on a charge of receiving stolen property, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, John (Jhalker, found guilty of theft at Paliiafcua, was remanded for the probation officer's reports. , For stealing money and assault. Daniel Morgan was sentenced to eighteen month's imprisonment.

At the Supreme Court to-day William Gunn McKay, who -was convicted yesterday of receiving goods stolen from the steamer Blenheim, pleaded guilty to stealing two bottles of brandy from tho steamer Putiki. He was- sentenced to 18 months'- imprisonment on each charge,; the sentence to be concurrent.

Henry Matluew, charged with the theft of money from a till was found not guilty. Jclin Grifh'n was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for knowingly receiving stolen property. Elizabeth Black alias Grant alias Freeman, for stealing £1 2s and a puree from; the person, was sent l o prison for six months.

• CHKISTCHUBCH, August 19. At the Supreme Court to-day John Page was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for perjury - The /men alleged to hays been concorned in the sticking ~_ • <ap case 3 of May last appeared for trial: The accused under the names of Joseph Johnston, Frank Bolt, and James Keegan, were indicted on three counts -with that on May 17th being armed with offensive weapons (revolvers) they robbed- from Charles Matshall a purse, gold ring,, key and l£s 7s in money. Tho other counts referred to the same duced the charges to robbery and stealing from the person. The accused -were convicted on the major charge. A second indictment against the three men, alleging robbery from the person was then taken but the case was not finished when the Court- adjourned. ... J

DUNEDIN, August 19. - The Cornish manslaughter, case . was continued at the Supreme Court to-day. Evidence was given by Dr Burnett, of Balclutha; Lily Knox, a housemaid; Taylor, a barman; Smith, a temporary boarder: and the police. Atkinson, a new acknowledged himself to be unsober in the box, and was ordered down. The evidence was even more contradictory and tangled than in. the lower Court. " The case for the Crown has concluded. No witnesses are to be called for the defence. Dr Bjurnetfc stated that he believed the cut on deceased's temple might have been caused by a fall and violent contact, with some sharp hard : substance as the architrave of a door. Death he believed had been due to a bruise, a little larger than, a half-crown piece, on the brain, probably, caused by a violent blow on the face, but there was nothing to show how this had been dealt. Alcoholism had been a contributory cause.