SUPREME COURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13682, 26 August 1908, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association,

AUCKLAND, August 25.

At the Supreme Court David Henry Kell'sitV.ivns found not guilty on a charge of assault with intent, but. giiiJry of common assault, on a young girl in, the stre;t, and was sentenced to one year's impVisoriment.

, WANGAN.UI, August 25._ The Supreme Court sessions opened th'ia morning. "Mr Justice Chapman, in charging 'the" grand jury, 'congratulated them on the olmo.vt total absence of !•:*- rious crime, in this important; and growing district. The number "of-cases-'.'Aitois so small that he thought he was justified in speaking of it as representing an almost total absencje of serious crime*. George Lawrence, of Ormondlville, who had 1 pleaded guilty in the lower Court to making a false declaration of birth in respect to two children, with the object, of protecting them and their mother, was fined £3. WELLINGTON, August 25. Edward George 'Hansen, an ex-coutin-genter was sentenced, at the -Supreme Court to-day to two years' imprisonment on a charge .of breaking, and entering^. pHRISTCHURCH, August 28] At the Supreme; Court to-day divorce decrees were granted in Bayfield v. Bayfield, wife's petition,, on the ground .of misconduct; Cohen v., Cohen, wife's petition, on the ground of failure'to comply with an order the'restitution of conjugal rights.; Hopkins v. '-Hipkins, -wife's petition, for misconduct. ■•-. '■■'-• INVEECARGILL, August -25. The Supreme Court sittings opened-be-fore Mr Justice Williams to-day. There • are only three cases, one ' of.-.sheep-steal-irig and two of shooting with intent. True bills were found; in each.; The 1 cftse against Thom.asi Scott, a coloiired, man, of wounding a girl named Mary Aam v ßrowri, with intent, was heard first. Scott visited the house with a gun in his possession, and ■ the girl'sought, refuge in;..a bedroom.. The weapon was diseharijed inflicting a serious inj'Tiry: in the girl's "arm. The defence is that the ,gun : was fiivld accidentally. Scott was- found -'guilt y/' of gi'ievous bodilv harm to Mary •Ann- Brfown in shooting ;her a gun, arid—ltii Honour deferred-sentence.