RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3907, 28 January 1884, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

This Day,

(Before Captain Preoce, R.M.) lunacy. ;•

Stewart McGlashan, charged with vagrancy, could not bo induced to plead, and he was remanded to the gaol•• till tomorrow for medical examination, asSergeant Burtenshaw had doubts as to his sanity. John Penifold deposed that for six months he had kept the accused andhin threo dogs. In tho opinion of the witness the acoused was insane. Albert Hackett, charged with lunacy brought on by drink, was remandod for a week. .■". '■■ •-.!■■: Hoora to Umu, on remand charged with, lunacy, was further remanded for a week. DRUNKENNESS. John Woodcock, charged as above, was discharged with a caution, having been in the lock-up since Saturday morning. SLY OEOO SKLMNG. -. John King, charged with selling liquor without a license at Pohui on the 7th December last, pleaded not guilty. Mr Laacelles appeared for defendanty-*' Inspector Scully prosecutor. Frederick Bowman deposed ho was served with drinks by John King, At tho time ho was accompanied by: Henry Esoott, who asked him to go and have drinks. Witness paid for tho drinks. To Mr Lascelles: Constable Marsh did not toll him to go and sec if he could got any liquor at the hotel. He would swear he was served with whiskey. Had not been promised £5, nor any portion of it, if a conviction was obtained. Went home and came back for the second time for drinks. Henry Scott deposed to being served with liquor, and Bowman put down money for drinks, but he could not swear whether King picked up the money or not. He believed the liquor was whiskey, but he would not swear to it. To Mr Lascellos: Bowman asked witness to go and havo tho drinks. They had two drinks each, but, never left the 'promises between being supplied with the liquor. He-examined : He could liot say hour often he had been to King's, as up till December he had been for four months a Good Templar. ' He had his last liquor at King's house on Christmas eve. Ho noveif paid for any liquors ho got during tho month of December. Mr Lascelles said, Bowman swore ho was asked to go to Kings by tho other witness, and that witness swore he did not ask Bowman to go there, but the latter asked him. A material point was that one witness would not swear to tho drinks being paid for. Mr King kept, like a prudent man', spirits on his promise*, and was in tho habit of treating his friends,- but had never sold any drink since his license lapsed. John King said he had often asked Escott to have a drink with him, as he was very handy to him helping • him in his farnt work, and the coachman Bowman, having come there with Escott,- he could do no less than ask him also to have a drink, but ho had never roceived any payment for liquor so supplied. Had only seen Bowman onco in his house. His Worship found tho ! charge proved, and fiiiGd accused £5, costs 255, and witnesses'expenses £2 10s, or in default one months' imprisonment with hard labor. Parai was chai - ged with , selling , liquor at Tarawcra on tlio 28th December last, without having a lieonso and pleaded not guilty. After hearing tho evidence His Worship reserved judgment. Ana Tipeno was charged with soiling liquor at To Harato on the 28th December last, without being the holder of a license. She pleaded guilty, and His Worship reserved judgment, ; ~•'.•' . Watene, for a similar offence at To Harato on the 28th Doccmbor last, was fined £o, costs 21s, witnesses' expenses 2r, or in default imprisonment. for one month with hard labor. . : . ■ ; , ■,-:■,:■.