MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 124, 12 February 1918, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE AND MAINTENANCE .CASES. Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., presided over a sitting of ' the Magistrate's. Court yesterday/ and dealt with the police und-maintenance cases. . For -insobriety four first offenders were fiiiud 10s. each, with iho option of .serving 24 ' hours' . imprisonment. Another offender who. failed to appear had his bail of -205.-estreated. ... Gen. W. J'. M'Dougall wasconyictod and fiued 605., with the alternative ofserving 21 days in gaol, for obstructing Constable Frost in the execution of his duty. The constable arrested a woman. fo<- drunkenness, and' the acicued endeavoured, to . get her »iwny .from the constable.

A seiiman belonging to an oversea vessel was fined £-5, in default one month's imprisonment, for using ohsceno language in Stout Street. A second charge of committing a grossly indecent act was withdrawn. The defendant was ordered to hG handed over to the captain, of his vessel on payment of the fine. Hra&st Hildred was convicted M assaulting Ronald T. M'Hugh and Clarence Pa ton, and was fined 40fi. and costs. According to the police statement he-defendant and his friends were standing at the corner of Cuba and Vivian Streets, when the complainants'came along and asked to he excused as they passpd by. The defendant, who was under the influence of drink, was under thfl impression, l that some disparaging remarks had been made, and lie followed the complainants and committed the assault. Joseph George Wood,, who during the currenoy of a separatum order, trespassed by entering the- house occupied by his wife, was before the Court. Mr. I'. W. Jackson appeared for complainant. It appeared that the defendant violently assaulted his wife on the occasion in question. Ho was convicted and sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment, and was bound over to keep the peace in the sum of £25, and two sureties of £12 10s. each. Om a second clurge of disobeying a maintenance order, the arrears amounting to £15, hi was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the warrant not to issue unless 'applied for by complainant.Mary Ann Moody, an elderly woman, proceeded against her husband, Thomas Moody, to obtain' a separation order, with'maintenance... After hearing theevidence the "Magistrate granted a separation order, with maintenance at the rate of £1 per week, and ordered the defendant to ay £5 as past maintenance.