ASSAULT WITH A GLASS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1913, Page 8

ASSAULT WITH A GLASS

— m QUESTION OF IDENTITY. Before Mr. Justice Chapman, in the Supreme Court to-day, William John Hogan, a respectably-dressed young man, was charged with .'iseaiilting one George Marvin, and causing aciual bodily harm. The offence wa« alleged to have taken place on the 27th January last during a drunken quarrel, the "weapon used being a broken glass. Mr. C. V. Goulter appeared for the accused. Dr. Henry Pollen stated that Marvin had sustained n severe gnsh near the' ear and a wound near the eye.' George Marvin stated that he wa6 having a drink with the accused in an hotel, when fio«pn became quarrelsome, and threw a glass of beer" over witness, who struck him.. , The crowd intervened, and witness walked across Willis-street, Avhen someone struck him on the face with a I broken glass. He could not see who the man-was.- . James Jones said he was in Wijlisstreet abo.ut 7.50 on the evening of tho" 27th January! He 6a\v two men separating from*' fighting — the accused and Marvin. Marvin went away,' and ilogan 1 canio up after him and hit him with a glass. The accused t ran. Witness followed, »and kept him 'in sight until he came to a policeman. Henry Harding also gave evidence. Sergeant Fitzgerald said that when arrested . accused denied having struck Marvin with tho glass. Constable J?orsyth deposed .to seeing Marvin struck, but , could not identify the man who struck the blow. No evidence was called for the defence. Counsel for accused submitted that there was no evidence of identity. His Honour 1 summed up, and the jury retired at 12.25, returning at 12.55 with a verdict of guilty. Mr. Goulter asked if his Honour was prepared "to grant probation. His Honour ; '• No ; * I always inflict sentences of imprisonment in cases of this kind, ,and I think Magistrates should always do the same. A sentence of six weeks' imprisonment with, hard labour was imposed.