SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2091, 28 May 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Press Association.

DUNEDIN, yesterday

The criminal sittings of the Supremo Court opened before Judge AVilliams this morning. True bins were returned in all cases. Nicholas Tressider, who had been convicted for .breaking and entering, was brought up for sentence, in consequence of his having broken* probation by drinking. Accused agreed to take out a prohibition order, and was released. Charles Ogier Bavly, who had pleaded guilty to making a false declaration as to his age when applying for a. position in the railway service, was fined £5. George Stanley Sharp, who pleaded guilty to receiving cigarettes, .stolen from the warehouse of Rattray and Son in October last, was admitted to probation for 18 months.

AUCKLAND, yesterday

In charging the grand'jury at the opening of the criminal sittings of Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Denniston- commented upon the large proportion of sexual offences in*-, the calendar, cases of this class compris■iiila >2O per cent of the thirty cases to be tried. Judge Denniston sentenced Frederick AV. Barker, shopwalker, to four months’ imprisonment for theft of drapery from his employer. The Judge characterised as absurd prisoner’s plea in mitigation that lie wanted money to redeem the family jewels from the custody of a pawnbroker.

A Maori named Ti Ahialii Ti Alii pleaded guilty to forgery at Huntly, and sentence was deferred. John Marjoribanks was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment on each of four charges of false pretences, the sentences to be concurrent. Prisoner pleaded guilty, but said lie liad been drinking heavily at the time he tendered bogus cheques for various goods. An elderly man named Richard AA’alton was sentenced to six months for stealing a mare, the property of Colin Adams, of Cambridge. He borrowed the horse from informla lit’s son, and tried to borrow £l9 on it from one man, ancl offered it for sale to another for Later, meeting the owner of the horse, he said lie brought it along the East Coast, and offered to let him have '.t for £2, and to give any trial desired. Accused told the jury that he had been drinking, and would not have sold the pony for half the money in Cambridge. Eveland Taylor, a middle-aged man, pleaded "not guilty” to a charge of indecent assault on a little girl. The jury found him guilty, and sentence was deferred. AA*EISLINGTON, last night. At the Supreme Court to-day William Agate brought an action claiming £5Ol damages from Stephen Jud for slander. The. jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for one farthing damages.. Judgment was entered accordingly without- costs.