SUPREME COURT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14065, 20 August 1913, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

AT CHRISTCHURCH. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 19. At tho Supreme Court criminal sittings Robert Blair Stewart, on a charge of breaking, entering, and theft, was sentenced to two years. John Hitchcock, a wcak-looking niv>. pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to murder his sister, Annie Hitchcock, at Akaroa on April 20th last. The jury, without leaving the box, f«mn 1 the prisimcr not guiltv, on tho ground < insanity. , Mr Stringer, Crown Prosecutor, -- • His Honour, under the Criminal Code, could order the prisoner to be kept in safe custody until the Minister’s phase o was known. Mr Bedford asked that prisoner be committed to Scacliff. His Honour said this was a math-;’ fc - the Minister. Mr Stringer stated that he would act for a stay of proceedings on the atten ed suicide charge. Edward Clarence Wilton was mr.-.-i'.i'd to sis months for breaking, entering, and theft. AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, August 2(1. John Bin.skie, charged with false pi ■- tepees, was sentenced to 12 month s’ imprisonment and declared an habit tin I criminal. * • lu divorce, a decree nisi was grant,-I in the'.case of .Alfred Clins. Smith v, Ethel Mary Smith, misconduct.