THE SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2106, 4 February 1908, Page 2

THE SUPREME COURT.

SITTINGS IN AUCKLAND. Press Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 3. At tlio Supreme Court to-day Albert Marsden, a young man, who pleaded guilty to. forgery and theft at Onehunga, was brought up for sentence. His Honor remarked that offences of this kind were very serious, but ho did not like to send such a young man to prison. Ho would admit him to probation for two years. The prisoner was ordered to pay costs of Court (£3 3s (kl) in monthly instalments of 10s. Peter Alexander admitted to a number of previous convictions for false pretences and forgery. He had pleaded guilty in the lower Court to forgery, and was sentenced .to 18 months’ hard labor. ■John Hooper, a young man, who had been committed for trial from Waipu on a charge of breaking and entering, and the theft of a quantity of wearing apparel, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 12 months’ hard labor.

THE AYELLINGTON SITTING

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WELLINGTON, Feb. 3. The Supreme Court criminal sessions opened to-day. Thirteen cases wero set down for trial. Tho Grand Jury found true bills on each indictment. In the case of James Sheridan, charged with the murder of John AlcNally, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. Frederick Cooper pleaded guilty to several charges of burglary at private houses in tho city. The man had a bad record, and he was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment-. John Aloffat- and Charles Alack were found guilty of -robbery from a hotel, and wero remanded for sentence.

Patrick Brady was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for robbing a drunken sailor. James Mills and Arthur Thomas were found guilty of assault and robbery at Alasterton, and were each sentenced to two years’ hard labor.