SUPREME COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 410, 9 July 1880, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

C* JhA Cr&uiijaOSCstts^f , the Sujw^me. Coiirt opened in Christchuich on Monday last, before Jbia Hqnpr_Mr. Justice Johnston. "Mr'lsuncan "prosecuted on behalf of ~the nuh I A 4 % \M -i y I |Th© ,be.6n sworn in, his" Honor addressed them in an able ;epeechj • ; ; :■■ ;' ■ < ' His Honor having delivered his charge to .the (prrand Jury, the? follpwing cases, "-, were disposed of :•--■ < ' Henry Mason and William Palmer, two lads, for obstructing a railway, were sentenced to Lyttelton Gaol for six weeks, without hard labor.

Robert Henry Rogers who pleaded guilty to forging and uttering cheques on the Union Bank at Sefton for £5 10s and £3 respectively, was sentenced to penal servitude for four years on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. ,- r • /Edgar B.irrenget, for embezzling two several'siuns, £60 and the properly,, of the Bank of New Zealand, was seYiteiiced' to twelve months' hard labor. ■

William Maddams, alias Mannering, alias Turtle, pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking into and stealing from a dwelling, and was sentenced to penal servitude for four years. , .. ;

Richard Wood, for breaking into and stealing from t l ie premises of Messrs Hallenstein,ton the 14th ult, was sentenced to two years' hard labour. Matthew Longden pleaded guilty to a charge ot stealing from .the person, and was sentenced to penal servitude for four

years. John Felz Bandy, for larceny, was sentenced to six imonths' imprisonment with hard labor.

Henry Hayes pleaded guilty to forging and uttering a cheque for £8 on the Bank of Now Zealand; and was sentenced to hard labor for eighteen calendar months. Michael Higgins, for stealing two tarpaulins, iho property of the .Railway

Diipartment, wns s«?ntenred to eighteen calendar months' hard labor. Ilonry White, charged with stealing a watch and chain from the persou of Thomas Stoddart, was discharged with a caution. Tuesday, July 6. Jane Mathews pleaded " Not a charge of killing her 'She ' also made the same plefi/fc>,"a cliargfoof j concealment of The flic-, prisoner "Not GSillty" of ;anf•] " Guilty "of concealment of {andshe was sentenced to two years' ment with labor. '• ' \ |PH' *'] George Sch?viidt, for. bb'taiHjn* by t*]&£ pretences^on'.March 9/ certain , sQodtifol&' money from Jacob Grossman, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment without hard labor ; taking into consideration the bad state of prisoner's health, who -was stated to be in the last itage of rapid consumption.

Wednesday, July 7. " Finnic "* Bomer was'-lienfencott year's hard labor for stealing, on 29,) a gelding, property of James Cordy. f James Ryan,. for stealing £25, tieTfy '6f Tairiea Walsh,!roniTKeperloiroiT Thomae Donaldson, was sentenced to four years'penal servitude. ? ~...,. H^ ['p'M m\a perjury committed on May lo at the B.M. Court, Christchurch. (Hie Hbrwr deferred sentence. >

J Jervis Wilson was acquitted of the ,<|harge/of;setdng fire to JoJ r |oats and three of barley on March 247 i -WilliamMajorwaaacquitted..c»f abimitar! ■ !,■,;■,. ~ ...u Imii fl(>-a-iA CI . v -_, y] , ~R , i, ,.[ iai ? [BY nV'^ Henry Davie, for penury, wae sentencejd, to twelveiiiioiiths'iinip'rißonmeriy^^';' " j Corry, charged wjthjpbjßep pteapng at Ashburton Forks, was acquitted.

1 Graham Flowers,. ; iiQ»tti» stealing, was .aentencedj io )yejftr&'> pehai'serriiiude. -' .icrjfjo'js , >vam>\*' . ; lUiiaconcl tided the Criiniruil BrttinffS* »