SUPREME COURT.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 182, 8 January 1875, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

CRIMINAL SITTINGS. Friday, January 8. [Before his Honor Mr Justice Gresson.] The sitting of the Court was resumed at 10 a.m. this day. LARCENY. Charles Dee and John Hennessy were indicted for having on the 20th October stolen a coat and pocket-book, the property of W. F. Warner ; also, a cheque for £B, drawn by S. E. Horneman in favor of W. F. Warner. The prisoners pleaded "Not Guilty," and were undefended by counsel. Mr B. Button was chosen foreman of the jury. The facts of the case were very simple. The prosecutor, Mr W. F. Warner, of the Commercial Hotel, on the day mentioned, took off his coat, containing a pocket-book, and hung it on a fence near where he was doing some work. In the pocket book was a cheque signed by S. E. Horneman, in favor of Mr Warner, for £B. The prosecutor, soon after this, missed the coat and contents. Information was given to the police, and shortly afterwards the prisoners changed the cheque lost by Mr Warner at Strange's drapery establishment. The prisoners were arrested by Detective Feast. Evidence having been given in support of the indictment The jury, after a long absence from Court, returned a verdict of " Not Guilty " against Dee, and "Guilty" against Hennessy. Hennessy was then arraigned on a previous conviction, to which he pleaded guilty. His Honor sentenced the prisoner to penal servitude for three years. SENTENCE. William Bunnie, found guilty on a charge of indecently assaulting one Sarah Elinor

Pepper, near Rangiora, on the 28th Sept. was brought up to receive sentence. His Honor sentenced the prisoner to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labor, and also to receive fifteen strokes of the cat-of-nine-tails in the first month of his incarceration.

LARCENY IN A DWELLING. John Ray was brought up and placed in the dock on this charge. The Crown Prosecutor intimated that owing to the absence of William Pilkinton, a material witness, he was unable to proceed with the case.

His Honor said that under the circumstances he would order the prisoner to be discharged, on his entering into his own recognizances in £2OO to appear at the next sitting of the Supreme Court. The recognizances of the remaining witnesses were then respited until next session of the Court, in April. The Court then adjourned.