SUPREME COURT
PRISONERS SENTENCED. B’ TBLBGBAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION New Plymouth, February 22. The Supreme Court sessions opened yesterday morning. His Honour tho Chief Justice (Sir Charles Skorrett) presiding. Gilbert Henry Death, wlio pleaded guilty to forging and uttering at Hawera, was admit Icd to two years’ probation and ordered to pay the costs of tho prosecution. The jury to-day acquitted Heaton Clyde Burgess in the Supreme Court on a charge of using an instrument with intent to procure ini’scarriage. The jury disagreed after .four hours’ retirement on a charge of false pretences against: John Howard William Tupp, and a fresh trial next session was ordered. Napier, February 21. The Supremo Court sessions openel this morning. There were only four criminal charges. Mr. Justice Ostler congratulated the district on tho absence of serious crime. Horace Aladdaford, for defnlcalion, was sentenced to two years’ detention.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 124, 23 February 1928, Page 3
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