SUPREME COURT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2246, 7 October 1889, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

CRIMINAL SESSIONS. [Pfiß PfiESS ASSOOIATIOH.] Wellington, Ootober 7. The orlmlnal elttlaga of the Supreme Oourt opened thin morning bafora tbe Obicf Jastlo*. In his Address to the Grand J ary H(b Honor said that iitlia Qa'endar was a long one It had been agreed m order to save time to put off the Napier cases arising oat of the BroaghtonDannolly trouble till the 28 .h lust, Tde I list coatainod a ohargeof apaoallae nature, viz , bceaoh of the Riukcaptoy Aot, one 0. E. Beckmsn of Masterton being charged uodar action 164 with hiving dhponod of property m a manner oaloa* lated to defraud hia oreditora aad with attomptlng to leave the Colony, with money. t£o o >old not say moch about the ohargea Egaiuat the late Jiapootor Ba'len, foe ho had reanrvod bis defence, m th,a lower Omrt, Thd Chief Cfustioe ra-r marlfad at aoqji e>iqth on tho par jury oWgea a^inst Djteotiva BvUJ^tni » «U-----iog put of tk9 Oheoaia oas?. a^nd pointed

«oold be preferred against the aoau el was that of the convict Ohemis, who waj undergoing Imprisonment for life, and Hii Honor held be was not a competent witness. The »me remarks would ipp'y , to the evidence of Mrs Ohemis Later. The only tfue bill so fur is aga'nst Kdwatd Molnto^h accused o r being concerned m aa assault and robbery on a possenger by the Tamwera who was on hlßway to Nelson. Prißomr wis givon the option nnder the Act of last session of going into the box end Riving evidence, but he declined on the ground that he had already embodied what he had to pay In the e'a'.emoLt read m the low- r Oonrt DuNEDwe, Ocobcr 7 The Judge's charge merelp r-ferretf to the cises on the calendar, none of which called for comment, Daniel Ross pleaded guilty to several charges of pawning w^tohea left for him to repair. He was sen ten cod to twelve monthi concurrent. Mary Bmitb p'ended gaUty to the latoeny of jewellery, and Harry Thomson to iaroeny from a dwelling. Sentence ww deferred till tomorrow m both cases to enable the probation effioer to report.