Supreme Court Sittings.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 123, 20 November 1894, Page 2

Supreme Court Sittings.

(PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION!. Wbllington, November 19. The Chief Justice in opening the criminal session said he had no remarks to make upon the calendar. Geo. Hume, fisherman, charged with assaulting his wife, was found guilty. Mr H. Kimberley, for larceny, and John Mcßae, for horse stealing in the Wairarapa district pleaded guilty. All three were remanded for sentence. The Grand Jury found true bills in all cases except that of Spay, charged with false pretences. Fredk. Dugan pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary and was sentenced to twelve months. J. Lindsay pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery and false pretences, and Robert Crocker pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property, though not to burglary. Sentence was deferred in each case. This Day. The sentences of the Supreme Court are : — George Hume, convicted of assaulting his wife and twisting her arm until it broke, two years' hard labor (he had been convicted of several and various assaults on his wife) ; Paul Gortstoff, alias Korth, theft of a number of articles from fellow lodgers, 15 months ; John Mcßae, stealing a horse and saddle, 15 months ; B. Kimberley, an old man, stealing an overcoat and shirt, remanded for medical examination ; R. Crocker, burglary at Opaki and Masterton, 15 mouths. John Lindsay pleaded guilty to four charges of foi g .ry and false pretences. He had beeu previously couvicted of forgery. He received two years' hard labor. Christchubch, November 1&. At the Supremo Court to-day David Joseph Scott was found guilty of perjury iv connection with the Cheviot sly grog selling case and sentenced to eighteen mouths' hard labour. Alice James, Aunie Concoran and Margaret Kelly pleaded guilty to kqepiug a disorderly house aud each was fined ±10 or one month's imprisonment. John Gill, fpr sheep-stealing, received four yoars. Alexander Malcolm, for attempted suicide, was bouud over in his own recognisances of L 25 to come up for sentence when called upon ; Walter A. Birch, for false pretences, received nine months' imprisonment.