SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 534, 15 June 1909, Page 9

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

V(BT TELEORArB—I'BESS ASSOCIATION.}, .; :'.■■.■'.'■■:. ;■■'.-■ Auckland,' June 14. ...At the Supreme Court, Htjnry Terawhiti, . o Maori, found guilty of perjury, in whoso case the jury made- a recommendation to mercy on the ground that he had been the oatspaw of a clever criminal, appeared .'■' for , .sentence. •'.' Mr. ••. Justice ■ Edwards said the jury did not know . the ■•■ facts as he did. Had not a solicitor in the case'in which perjury was committed- concealed a 'shorthand writer in tho room in which a conversation between the parties had been held, tho other man would have '■ been convicted, and Terawhiti escaped scot free.; The perjury had been committod_with the object of getting another man convicted. It'was a-vicions> sorjous/ offence, and a sentence of soven years' imprisonment would be inflicted. '■ .-.' ': , ■\ Richard Whito, on forty charges of theft, was.nent to gaol, for seven "years, tho judgo stating that, the' sbptonce. had. been made more severe because this, being : tho first timp of capture, ho could not sentence him as: a habitual criminal. " .. : Goorgo Mock, for breaking, entering, theft, ' anil recoiTing, and felso pretences, wne sentenced to two jeers' imprieonment. William Knoi," for thoft of a penny-in-the-slot birdcage, was-sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and declared a habitual criminal. Edwsrd .Knox, for receiving, got a sontence of oighteon months' imprinonicnt. Frank 'fate, convicted of criminal assault, r< was sentenced to throo years' imprisonment.