SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1925, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

[by tflkguavh—ri:n chess association.] WELL! XGTOX S ENT UNCUS. WELLINGTON, February 7. The following prisoners were sentenced to-day by Sir R. Stout:— Joseph James Gronotte, bigamy and false declaration to the Registrar of -Marriages, two years’ hard labour. Albert Joseph Fogarty, obtaining £75 by false pretences, nine months’ hard labour.

Giuseppe Lamacchia, indecent assault. eighteen months’ probation. Robert Harvey Campbell was sentenced to probation for eighteen months, for theft of a safe from the Lower Mutt Railway Station. Accused had a had record, hut he was leniently treated because Sir R. Stout was satisfied that accused was in a state of absolute penury, and stole on impulse.

UX-POLIOFAIAX'S 0 UFUX('U. DUNEDIN, February 7

Frederick Arthur Pearce, an expoliccmau and now a taxi driver, was committed for trial on a charge of breaking and entering the premises of A. and T. Inglis, drapers, and also with receiving stolen goods, the property of another firm.

SEXUAL OFFENCE. PALMERSTON X., February 7. At the Supreme Court. Henry Sodden Carmichael, aged IS, was charged with carnal knowledge, at Dannevirke of a girl between 19 and IG. ’I ho jury returned a verdict of guilty with a rcccimucudatiou to mercy, as they were advised to do by his Honor, adding also a recommendation that the girl he placed under supervision. The accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years.