SUPREME COURT SESSIONS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1136, 25 May 1911, Page 8

SUPREME COURT SESSIONS.

(By Telegrap:i.-Pros3 Association.)

•Auckland, May 24. In the Supreme Court, Walter Francis Darby, a bankrupt merchant, whose case was -recently before the' Appeal Court came up for sentence on seven chaves o. breach of the' Bankruptcy Act.' jßr. Justice Chapman said there was no evidence of fraudulent, intent, rather of recklessness, perhaps, carelessness. Takiii" into consideration what accused had a'° ready suffered he imposed only a nominal penalty, of two months' hard labour,, which would date from conviction, and therefore would have been alrnadv served.'

Thomas M'D.mald, clerk in tlio Bank of New Zealand, charged with theft and falsifying a. lodger,.'was sentenced to eighteen .months' hard labour.

-Frederick Thomas Martyn, for (heft from vos-cls, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on each, of .two charges and declared a habitual criminal.

Charles Kiwi Wilkinson, a. half-caste Maori, aged . IS, and Charles Boyd,, aged 21, were sentenced for forgery and utter; ing and conspiracy lo defraud, the former to eighteen months' reformatory treatment on one charge, and to come up for sentence on others; Boyd to eighteen months' imprisonment.

John Andrew Showstrand, aged 49, a carpenter by trade, residing at Onohunga, denied.n charge of committing a certain criminal act of a serious nature. Accused was undefended by counsel. The jury returned a verdict of guilty without retiring, and the prisoner was sentenced to, ten years' imprisonment, while, on a charge of incest, to which he pleaded guilty in the lower court, lie was sentenced to a further ten years' imprisonment.