SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 733, 4 February 1910, Page 9

SUPREME COURT.

QUARTERLY, CRIMINAL SESSIONS. TWO SERIOUS CASES. ' ;..The oriminnl ;sessions of,.the Supreme Court. iyere\ c6ntiiincd 'yesterday/ 'jfri Justico . Chapman presiding.' ;, ; ; Cecil -Meyriok,'- the j ; oung man who was acquitted on Wednesday on; 1 a eerioiis oharge, because;. the; iury decided that, in their opinion, ho was a lunatic at the time he committed the. act, was bronght. UP- .Mr; Wilford: appeared -for .accused. _rho judge ordered that accused should I>3 kept m strict custody until the pleasure of ~ the Minister for',, * Internal, Affairs regarding him was known. ; jWuliam .irJlahon ; was ' charged with .having..committed a criminal.■ assault at ICilbirnie. Mr. Myers • conducted the prosecution,, and t Mr. Wilford defended ;The ' jury deliberated for',half an: hour, .and returried a verdict of_guilty, .strongly rSoonimending. mercy. . His Honour remarked that the. sentence would bo such as. wonld' serve to< make *; known : that crimes of this class would be!dealt with severely. There was. provision made now for ..the -'...special .care and. education- of young-men, such as the prisoner, anS ho would; be' sentenced to four, years* imprikinmenti'.;with hard labour. ; ■

IN BANCO. | • A MAGISTRATE'S DECISION. ! ■ I :;'Sittirig in Banco.yesterday,' Mr. Justice. Cooper heard .the;case: of.E. Middlemiss i versus :East..and- East; a-;caso;on: appeal from.:'.the";decision-of Mr. W.;G. Eidaell > S.M. ..-: The, magistrate' had- given : judgment .- in favour i ofsjlio: respondents, - East and .East,- for .£-10 commission,- and.upon a .'counter-claimrfoiijjCSo;,'.., -■ 1 .. ;Mr.; D.' M. .FindlayS appeared "for .the and;Mr.: ; T. W. : Youne for the respondents.' . ' '- - • Counsel; for appellant raid that East and East liad acted as : agentsfor, .both Middlemiss-and.-'-bnO; J.".;Hawthoriie; iii conne'ctipnpwith an exchange -. of :Aland. had refused to pay. East aud East, the commission' whioh they claimed, his - reason - being; that they had-, already received: '.commission from - .Hawthorne. The,,.magistrate,; after hearing: the': evidence;; decided-.tKatjEast ;,and East. were entitled- to; 'charge, commission to. Middlemiss and Ilawthoixo, both of'whom had been aware tbat tho firm' was actiri?.- ■ His ' Lirgument, ,-a'iid reserved judgment.'

'i , TO-DAY'S CRIMINAL CASES;*. iTKe/criminal trials; willv be, wmtinned to;day, " ' ffheiiA - charges '.. against -■■' Joseph Brain and James Diggs will ' be' heard. : ; t