POLICE COURT.—Monday.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 581, 20 November 1871, Page 2

POLICE COURT.—Monday.

[Before Or. M. Mitford, aud Edward Isaaci Esqa., Justices.] '

Drunkenness. —Three drunkards were each fined five shillings and costs, or twenty.f olir hours' imprisonment; two were mulct in lOj with I lie usual alternative, and Henry Roach for a third offence, was sent to gaol for seven days. Iwdecekt Exposure.—John Burns, was charged with this offence against the Vagrant Act. —He pleaded guilty, but said he waj drunk and knew nothing about it.—Sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labor. Vagrancy. — Magaret Condrou pleaded not guilty to a charge of begging in a public thoroughfare.—Constable .Naughton proved the offence.—Being an old offender, and but just discharged from prison, she was ordered tp be returned to the Stockade for three more mouths.

Assault.—Peter Gimblett appeared to answer the complaint of Charles Brooks for unlawfully assaulting him.—Mi*. Joy for defendant. —The prosecutor said he did not wish to press the charge as the defendant Bad already been punished for drunkenness during which he had committed the assault,—» 1 he case was accordingly discharged. fans POE&rtfo a:nd Uttering-.—Edwurd Prime; alias Edward Good, was charged by Alfred Fo'ssett with forging and uttering a receipt for 19s lOd. —Prosecutor deposed that prisoner was in his employ on 2nd instant. —On.that day he sent him to Mr. Doonin for sugi?.— Witness gave him a pound and told him td get what it would purchase.—He returned .vith the sugar and handed witness a receipt for 19.110 d., purporting to.be signed by-T. W. Doonin, and also twopence change.—Witness hud since been applied to by Mr. Doon'n for tne money. —Witness,subsequently discharged prisoner as he found he was not honest. I —TV W. Doonin, storekeeper in Queen-street, deposed that prisoner, then being■ in -Me. Fossett's employ, came to the shop to pay a small account and to obtain a bag of sugar. — He did: not pay f?r the sugar, and witness gave hiui the usual invoice.—Witness identi: lied "the account produced ■as that -lie had handed prisoner, but, denied that thersignature to the receipt was his.—Prisoner reserved his defence, and was committed for trial at the nest criminal sittings of the Supreme Court. LUNACST.—On the testimony of■ Messrs. Nicholson and Hooper, legally qualified medical practitioners, a person of unsound mind was ordered to be taken to the Lunatic Hospital for medical treatment.