SUPREME COURT.
INTERESTING CASES
(Per Press Association.) TIMARU, last night. The Supreme Court criminal session concluded to-day. In the Tenuika robbery and assault case, the jury, after ati hour and a half’s retirement, returned a verdict of not guilty, handing in also a slip of paper deprecating the amount of drunkenness allowed in the streets as the case had disclosed. Nicholas Oeistro, aged 22, of Wellington, was acquitted on a charge of forgery and uttering a cheque at Tintaru inf August, 1900, by which he, got- a, suit of clothes and £4 change. The tailor and his assistant identified him as the man, but counsel for the defence saved hint by the simple “ athrometrical measurements.” Accused was measured in Court as for a suit, and found to he a smaller man than the person who got the suit and passed the cheque. In divorce jurisdiction a decree nisi was granted in the case Watts v. Watts and Fairlie, wife’s petition, on the ground of habitual drunkenness and ill-usage.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 440, 12 June 1902, Page 2
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