POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 605, 18 December 1871, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

THIS DAY. Before T B Kenderdine, and T Cheeseman, Esqs., Justices. DRUNKENNESS. Five persons convicted of this offence, were punished in ordinary manner. BREACH OF VAGEANT ACT Eliza McGinn was charged with being a rogue and vagabond, she having been previously convicted of vagrancy.drunkenness, and other offences, no less than thirty-four times. MALICIOUS INJURY TO PEOPEETY. The same prisoner was further charged of wilfluly destroying a jumper, valued at £2 10s Od, the property of Constable John Cadell. She stated that she had torn the constable's coat because he had torn her jacket and skirt. The Constable deposed that he had been compelled to drag her to the lock-up She was very violent, and using obscene language. For the first offence she was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, with hard labor; and for the second to pay the value of the coat, or be imprisoned for a like period. The prisoner said she thought the Constable ought, at any rate, to give her the old coat, as it would make her a jacket. DEEACH OF MUNCIPAL COEPOEATION ACT.

Eobert Andrew, for having his vehicle at rest without having a chain passed through the near wheel, so as to prevent its rotation. He was fined twenty shillings and costs.