SUPREME COURT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1528, 30 April 1885, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

[By Telegraph.] New Plymouth, To-day.

The Supreme Court criminal sessions were opene I this morning by Mr Justice Williams. There were only three oases. Kurn for larceny, and Gavey for forgery, both of whom pleaded guilty. In the cr.se of Boswell, for perjury, the Grand Jury found no bill.

Blenheim, To day,

In the Supreme Court the Salvation Army procession case (Filds v. Leasdale) came before the Court on appeal from the decismu of the Resident Magistrate dismissing information on the ground of no evidence of obstruction, Justice Richmond held that no question of law was involved, and that obstruction was purely a matter of defence. It did not appear from the evidence that tr a ffi: in the Market Place was obstructed, and the Ooutt could not hold that there was obstruction, because a person could nor stri .e a B line from one place to another. His Honor ad mitted that these meetings in a public place on Sunday afternoons might be annoying and injurious to appellant, whoso rpmpdjr might be by indictment for a nuisance. The Army must recollect that passing people together in that way, although by professing Christians for religious purposes, might be a serious annoyance to individuals and the public, but in the present case as the R.M. had found there was no evidence of construction, and as no point of law was involved the appeal would be dismissed. His Honor dismissed an appeal from the RM. who convicted the ex licensee of Grove Town Hotel, for selling liquor after his license was cancelled. His Honor held that the Magistrate was justified i i assuming cancellation, and that the R. M. Court was not a Court of appeal from Licensing Committees, if the Committee had informally cancelled the license without taking evidence on oath or without properly hearing out and determining the matter in dispute.—the appellant’s remedy was by application to the Supreme Court for prohibition.