SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1924, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

[by TF.i.itoKArn—not prkss association. AUCKLAND SITTINGS. AUCKLAND, October 28. At the Supreme Court criminal sessions, Justice Hcrdman, addressing the Grand Jury, said the Calendar included two charged with murder, three with rape, two with indecent assault, two offences against males, two carnal knowledge cases, and one incest case. However, there was no cause for disquietude. There was a tendency for special forms of crime to make their appearance periodically. He Imped many sessions would pass before a list would he submitted in which the charges wore characterised by such obscenity. Speaking of the attack on the woman in Albert Park, ho said the accused, on his own admission, was a sexual inauiae. The charge of murdering his child against the man Keogli was a pathetic case, and it might ho urged that he was insane. That was a question for the common jury. His Honour made brief reference to the charge of murder against Louis Shutes, at the Aurora Hotel.

The grand jury returned true bills in the two murder charges and carried the following rider; on the eomjiletiuii of their duties: That, in view of the bestiality shown ill many of the cases presented to the grand jury, it he a recommendation that judges’ power to ilillicl the punishment of flogging be more frequently exercised.