SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1938, 21 November 1906, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

l-UKSS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, yesterday,

A; the Supremo Gouri to-aay Joseph IHyeo’ds was charged with assaultirg John Hurley at Pulm.rston North, with intent So cause him grievous bodily harm. The jury returned a vetdict of causing bodily harm, but not with intent. Senlonco was deferred till Thursday,

Auckland! yostorday. In tho Supremo Court, Waiver U.cuurd Wobb, ngod 15, charged with having forged anil uttornd a ohtquo for £558 wan eontcnocd to ouo year's iinprißonmon*. John Catnoroo, foe stealing a horso, was 'onto.- ood tu two yearn’ hard labor. John U. Williamson, a lias Wilson Williamson, ’who hid ploadod guilty in the lower court to three charges or forgery, was sentenced to one year on onob ahurgo, the sonteuots to bo ooocuriont. John Smith Watson, alias Woodhousu, was aenioncol to two years’ hard labor for theft from a dwelling, and Joseph Wilson to oightoen months for robbery with violence. Dunedin, yeuiord.iy. At the Supromo Court thin morning the Grown Prosecutor made application for [ the adjournment of the triul of Fiudlny. chnrgnd with the Papakaio murder, till the Uamuru sittings on F. binary slh, owing ?o the aoaenoe through illuoss of three oecossttry witnesses. IS would grimily f'loilttato the triul if tho oaso was heard at Oumutu, Mr Hanlon, for the prisonor, opposed the application, hut oflered no otjiotion to an adjournment for a fortnight until tho witnesses wo;o woH. A change of venue should only bo granted whore tho sauio was in tho iuterosts of justice. Judgv Cooper fixed tho bearing for Dreembor 17th. if the oitouojstauoea

jviutitiocl it further adj luriiuiMt tho apjni cation could bo roue wed by tho Crown, but ho dcclinoti to sanction tho application tor a chaogo of trial to Oamaru, Boeing that tho prisoner otjootod. Honry Mitchell, William MoPhnrsoo, and Patrick Opporliuoh wiro found guilty of obtruding dU7O from Joseph Dickenson by means of tho oonfilcnco triolr. doutonoa was do forred till to-morrow.

Dunodiu, lest night,

At tho Supremo Coutt io-day Liufoon who had fired a rovolver in tbs street mid woundod Young, was convicted of causing bodily harm, tho jury rtoommcnding him !o mercy on uoojunt of tho manner ia wbiah ho was frequently annoyed. Sjutoncowr j deferred in tho oaso, as it wua also in the ouso of William White, found guilty of stealing fowls. Tho hoariug of tho oharge against John Findlay, ohatged with tbo murder of W. H, Eoouie, teio 0: at Popakaio, was postponed till Decomber 17, on tho grounds of tho illness of two wimesaop. Mr Justioo Ooopor said ho would make a recommendation that a reasonable sum bo place 1 at tho disposal of a solicitor to rnako inquiries to enable prisoner to dGfßnd himself.