SUPREME COURT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19623, 18 October 1933, Page 12

SUPREME COURT

QUARTERLY SESSION LIGHT CRIMINAL CALENDAR i The quarterly session of the Supreme 1 Court commenced in Timaru yesterday, before his Honour. Mr Justice ; Kennedy. There was only a short list ' of business to occupy the court. The following Grand Jury was emI panelled.—Edward George Kerr (foreman'. Ernest Rupert Isaac. Charles I Frederick Nixon. Thomas Currie. Donald Grant. Percy Barnes Foote. Harold Allchurch, Ezra Newall, Arthur j Morrison Parker. George Morrison, j Roderick Brodie. Frederick George I Holland. Samuel George McClelland. | Herbert William Hall. Robert Phair Carter. John Douglas Fraser. Thomas McGee. James Sinclair Herron. Victor Constantine Meehan. John McKi.n and John Leggett. Defaulting Jurymen. Ernest Duncan Mcßae, who failed :o appear when called to serve on the Grand Jury, was fined £5. When ne appeared later and furnished an explanation of his non-attendance his Honour remitted the fine. William Young, who also did not appear when called, was fined £l. In his charge to the Grand Jury, His Honour said the calendar for the session was not a long one. Four persons were accused of crime, two being charged with breaking, entering and theft at Geraldine, and two with breaking, entering and theft of parts of a motor-cycle at Ashburton. They would have little difficulty in following the evidence which he considered would warrant their returning true bills in each case. True Bills Returned. After His Honour had briefly traversed the evidence in each case the Grand Jury retired and returned later with true bills against Wilkin Rainsdon Avery and Alfred Norman O'Meara on charges of breaking, entering and stealing goods valued at £SO from the premises of Morrison Brothers, at Geraldine on March 8; and against Laurence Meaclem and Robert Henry Meaclem on charges !»f breaking, entering and theft at Ashburton. Case Held Over. ! Mr Campbell asked that the case in which Oswald M. Smith and Company claimed £BSO from Geo. M. Thompson, be held over until next session, the request being granted. Struck Out. A claim by George Winter for possession of a farm from Joseph Brophy was struck out. Mr Campbell stating that the matter had been settled. Possession Granted. Claiming that the Department had been hard in foreclosing on them, George Berry and Isabel M. Berry defended an action by the State Adi vances Superintendent, for whom Mr ! V. G. Russell appeared. Mr Russell said that the defendants had been given every chance, but had made little effort to meet the interest. His Honour made an order for possession forthwith, with costs £l2 12 - and disbursements against defendants. In Divorce. A dissolution of her marriage to John Thomas was sough: by Maud Thomas (Mr N. L. Knell) desertion being advanced as the grounds. The action was not defended. Petitioner said that her 19 years 'A married life had been unhappy. Her husband had failed to support her and she had been starved out. She was finally forced to leave the home owing to her husband's threat to shoot her. Two or three years after the mar- j riage respondent had failed to support | her, the children being undernourish- : ed. Roy Stratford, brother of petitioner j gave evidence in support, while Ethel . Rouse said that she had known petitioner for the last five years in Timaru and Waimate. and Mrs Thomas had lived apart from her husband during that time. A decree nisi, to be moved absolute in three months, was granted, with costs to petitioner. Discharge from Bankruptcy. A motion by Leslie Hosking Watson for discharge from bankruptcy was granted.