SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1923, Page 1

SUPREME COURT

(_IIY TKI,E(I HAITI —I'F.U I’ItESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND CASKS. AUCKLAND, July .'U The -Supreme ( unit sessions began to-day. In charging the Grand Jm\ AD Justice Stringer said the calendar, on which 21 names appeared, was not particularly serious, though there were one or two which were not only unpleasant hut grave, including two (•barges of rape, one involving a little girl of seven, and the other a young woman. Two eases ol manslaughter appeared on the list, in which cases the accused were motor drivers. Referring to one against Sydney Murphy, the Judge said that the accused was driving a motor down Queen Street,- and ran over a woman, and while proceeding on his wtiy it constable noted the number of the ear, and after some difficult V the accused was apprehended. At first he denied he was ill the vicinity. Laler he said he could not remember running over anybody. If a man was driving a ear at excessive speed without regard to the duty lie owed the public the jury was entitled to conclude that he was guilty ol manslaughter. 11l the other ease the Crown alleged excessive speed, and that the ear was travelling on the wrong side of the road.