SUPREME COURT
CRIMINAL SESSIONS
The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court were continued yesterday before His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout). The first case taken was that in whioh John Ryan was charged witih receiving from Jenny Lynn the sum of £25 in money and a silver votoh, well knowing that hoth the money and -the watch had been stolen from Sydney Moore. Mr. H. H. Ostler, of the Crown Law Office, represented the Crown, while Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared for the prisoner, who pleaded not guilty. On several occasions ?the circumstances connected with the case liave been reported in the Lower Court proceedings. The offence took place on June 4 last, but .Ryan disappeared from Wellington soon aftqr and was not arrested until early in October, when he was discovered in Auckland, Iμ-the meantime tlio woman Lynn had been convicted and sentenced for the theft. : The jury, after deliberating on the case for a little more than an houryesterday afternoon, returned a yerdict .of . guilty, the prisoner being remanded for sentence. ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES. Six charges of falsa pretences were preferred against a young man, named James Vipond Hillican, who pleaded not guilty and was defended by Mr. P. W. Jackson. The charges referred to the issue of vajueless cheques. They covered a period from August 22 to October 17, and represented a total amount of £16. Evidence was being tendered up till 5 o'olock last evening, when the farther hearing of the case was adjourned until 10 o'clock this morning. In the Supreme Court case, in which H. C. Stoddart was charged with committing an indecent act in a house in Macdonald Crescent, and.in which the jury returned a verdict of "Not guilty," the dofence was that the accused was not at the house until after 11.30 a.m., after the offence had taken place, that his arrival a*, the house warned the offender.to clear out'or hide, nn-1 that he (accused) was only there in ' me to meet the police when they arrived.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2311, 19 November 1914, Page 9
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337SUPREME COURT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2311, 19 November 1914, Page 9
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