SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 428, 10 February 1909, Page 11

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

♦ —- ' tor TElEoiiArn—rtiEss association.).^ r a Chrlstohurchj .February 8. The Supreme Court oalendar is very light Robert Carlyle, for breaking, entering, and * theft, 1 " nas sentenced lo i throe years' imprisonment, with hard labour, and an.habitual criminal. ' ■ Albert Walter Walker Yeadon, for breaking and Entering, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment without hard labour. John Brown, for breaking and entering, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment With hard labour. ' The case in which William James pleaded not-.gjjlilty to a charge of hiving-broken and entered a bUtdher's Shop bt Audingtou and stolen* a loill of mutton, was partly heard Richard Walter WalburtoA (80) was found guilty of the theft of clothing from the Caversham Hotel, and was senteh<s6d* to sis ■ months' lmpnaonmenti •'' ' l Auckland, February 8. The Supreme Court criminal sessions op ened'to-day. Mr Justice Edwards <!omme'hfced upoa the* entire absence 'from the calendar of criminal assaults on girls, and eaid that,,it was obriope that the Grand Jury's recommendation for i the use of the lash, 'and the giving effect to their recommendation at the last sitting of the Court, had l had the desired efiect. James Gates, aged 27, and Wm. Yates, aged 20, were sentenced to twelve and six ' months' imprisonment respectively, for break,ing and entering and theft. * "V '"■\