SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 272, 11 August 1921, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

PALMERSTON SITTINGS. From Our Own Correspondent. Palmerston North, August 10. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court were opened by His Honour Mr. Justice Hosking on Tuesday. There were only four cases on the criminal list. Edward Donovan and Robert Gilmour Allen, who are both at present undergoing sentences of fifteen years’ imprisonment in connection with, charges of attempting to shoot a policeman at Wanganui, were jointly charged with th" thoft of goods at Feilding on April 24 from the premises of Messrs. Dram wed Brothers. They were also charged with having broken and entered the o.hce ot tho Ratcliffe Land Agency at Feuding on or about the same date. Donovan, who took copious notes throughout, tho hearing, cross-examined several of the witnesses at great length, andl at t.io close of the case both he and Allen m dressed the jury. Aftdrian hour s retirement a verdict of guilty was returned in the Bramwell case, and not guilty in the case of the Ratcliffe Company. Allen was also chargM with having rcken into premises nt Palmerston North and stolen -a quantity. of cigarettes -and chocolates, and was found not gvilty. His Honour deferred sentence until Ihur-sday morning.