SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 117, 11 February 1919, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

MANSLAUGHTER CASE ALBRECHT FOUND GUILTY \ The third trial of Thomas Albrccht on a charge of manslaughter was taken in tho Supreme Court yesterday before Mr. i Justice Edwards. Mr. P. S. K. Macassey I appeared for the Crown, and Mr. H. P. j -O'l.eary for the prisoner. Mr. S. Camp- j bell was foreman of the jury. The ac- | cused was' charged with assaulting his j mother on December 4, from the effects of which sho subsequently died. The evidence was on the same lines ns that the two previous trials and at tiie hearing in the Magistrate's Court and at the inquest. , The jury retired at 5.5 p.m., and returned at 6.10 p.m. with a' verdict of guilty, but recommended the prisoner la mercy on account of his condition at the time he cr.mmited the assault. The prisoner was remanded until 10 a.m. to-day for sentence. A WANGANUI CASE. Johannes Meertens, a singlo man, 54 years of age, who pleaded guilty at Wanganui to carnally knowing a girl under 1G years of age, was to have come up for sentence, but the report required from the Wanganui police was not complete, and the prisoner was further remanded far a week. AUCKLAND SESSIONS. '" PRISONERS SENTENCED; 'iy Telegraph —Press Association. Auckland, February 10At the Supreme Court the following prisoners were sentenced:—Charles Sherman, forgery and uttering at Thames, two years' probation, lis residence and occupation being subject to the approval of the probation officer. Ernest. Brett, alias Cecil Travers, indecent assault, five years' imprisonment. Alfred Herbert Brookes, indecent assault on a male, throe years' probation. Johau Alfred Joliannscn, breaking and entering and theft, three years' hard labour. ' Ernest William Diirbridgo, charged with a criminal offence on a girl, was found not guilty. Thomas Savage, a Maori, charged with ■ bigamy, in having married a white woman in England while h<> hail a Maori wife at Thames, said he hud_committed the offence under the iimiression that as his first wife left -him lie was entitled to remarry after a cerlnin lapse of jime. The Judge believed that f.cciise/l's marriage was contracted in good faith. He fined accused X 5, and ordered him to pay the costs of the prosecution. CHRISTCHURCH SESSIONS. Christchurch, February 10. At the Supreme Court John AVillie Hartley was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on three charges of theft of pigeons of a total «.hte of XS3.