MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 184, 20 January 1880, Page 3

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCET. Tuesday, January 20. [Before G. L. Lee, Esq., J.P., and E. O. Latter, Esq , J P.] Detoe and DiaoBDBHLY —An old offender was fined 20s, and a fit at offender, ss. Lunacy.—James Dungai, charged with lunacy from drink, was remanded to Addington for forty-eight hours for medical treatmei t. Jane Hooper, similarly charged, not being sufficiently recoveredto appear, was remanded to the 23rd inst. Cbublty to Animals. —John Crabtree was charged with cruelly ill-treating a horse. Constable Allen stated that the previous day he saw the accused riding the horse, outside the Court, in Colombo street. The horse appeared to be Buffering extremely. Serjeant Morice deposed that the horse was quite unfit. He was Buffering from diseased skin, had a raw wither, and he was in a very low condition. Their Worships, after looking at the animal, endorsed the evidence of the last witness, but considered, as there was no evidence of its having been used more than on the one occasion in question, a fine of 20s would meet the justice of the case. At the same time the accused was cautioned that if he used the horse again he would render himself liable to imprisonment.