Supreme Court Sittings.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 256, 6 March 1894, Page 2

Supreme Court Sittings.

(FES FBBBS ASSOCIATION.) Wklhkoton, March 5. At the Supreme Court, Frederick H. Dowich, alias Bows, pleaded guilty to forging and uttering. Sentence was deferred, Charles Cunningham was sentenced to 18 mouths for having brutally assaulted big wife. Prisoner admitted that he had been punished previously for assaulting his wife. In sentencing John Briggs to twelve months for larceny, Judge Richmond expressed regret there was not a home for inebriates, to which cases of this description could be sent. John Doherty received six months for larceny. The Grand Jury threw out the bill against Lizzie Price, charged with child murder. This Day, In the Supreme this morning Judge Richmond mentioned the charge of infanticide against the girl Lizzie Price, and said he was surprised at the action of the Grand Jury in throwing out the bill, and said unless the jury thought the witnesses for the prosecution in the Lower Court bad perjured themselves the girl ought to have stood her trial. In returning •No Bill " theiGrand Jury had evidently mistaken their functions. His Honor also referred to the fact that the girl had been released from prison as soon as thp finding- of tfcg Grand Jory was annouuoed, and he told Mr Garvey t'.ie Governor of the Terrace G*ol, such things must not occur again, and in future a prisoner must only be released on an order from the Judge. a. x. « UuNibiH, March s. ■'* At the Supreme Court, George Coutts pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods from his two step sons and was sentenced to three years. One of the boys, Thompson, pleaded guilty to housebreaking and stealing and two others to receiving. They were Coutts' stepsons. Two were sent to the Industrial School and other admitted to probation.