SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1924, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

[by telegraph— ri?u phksh association.; CHRISTCHURCH CASKS. CHRISTCHURCH. February 12. Lewis Pam was acquitted on a charge of manslaughter on the right of beytcniher 29th. Pam drivr/.g a at Loburn. He hat! nc- tight, and a cMr which came io'".'d a corner Colh'J. ed with him. The .shaft ot the gig struck Ali.ss Julia Carboy, an occupant of the ear, and inflicted injuries from which she died. Frank William Harper was found not goiltv on a charge of indecent exposure. Albert Thomas, who pleaded guilty to a charge of forging an application for a transfer of a. Post Office Savings Bank account was remanded lor sentence. Leonard Ho'vnrdj Lepper. charged with attempted unlawful carnal knowledge, was found not guilty, but guilty of indecent assault. Sentence was deferred. CHRISTCHURCH, February 13. A notice of motion for a writ, has been issued, through the Supreme Court and served upon W.vvem Wilson, stipendiary magistrate, restraining him from sentencing Lionel Irving on the charge, of indecency preferred against him. The application was made on the ground that Irving had not been informed for his right ol a trial by jury, and that, though he pleaded not guilty, a plea of guilty was entered against him. The matter will come before .Justice Adams on Saturday. WELLINGTON CASKS. WELLINGTON. February 1.3. In the ease against Charles Henningimi. charged with burglary on premises i-i Cuba Street, tbe jury was absent Cor some considerable time, and returned a verdict of not guilty on the liist count of btoaking and entering. It disagreed regarding the alleged receiving. ATr .Justice Salmond ordered a new trial to take place on Friday. Judah Barsht, an itinerant watchmaker and jeweller was sentenced at lbe Supreme Court to three months’ imprisonment for theft and false pretences. He bad been given a ring from which a diamond was missing, with instructions to insert a white sapphire, but he removed another diamond, valued at £0 10s, which be sold lor 27s (id. He inserted two paste stones. He bad been in gaol for four months. Arthur Harold Anderson, for breaking and entering a shop, and attempting to steal, with a previous conviction for a similar offence was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment. An incident of ten years ago wrs resurrected at the Supreme Court today, in a charge of manslaughter against Thomas .Sheehan. A man named Frank Revel! wi’.s riding a motor-cycle along Hint rood on the night of Febrmuy 27. 1914. He collided with a cart in which accused was carting shingle. J lie shaft struck Revcll in the chest and killed him. Sheehan was arrested for drunkenness and acquitted on that charge, but convicted on his own admission for driving without a light. Subsequently be absconded, hence tbe delay in tho manslaughter charge. The Crown Prosecutor said that, of course, no charge i malicious intention was against Sheehan The case is proceeding.