SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1925, Page 1

SUPREME COURT.

[by TELroRArn-s-rKit rit ess association FORCER'S EASY PREY. DUNEDIN, June 19. At the Supreme Court, Clive Argvlc Wood, for forgery, three charges, was sentenced to one year'- imprisonment on each charge, '•iimul.ilive. Prisoner had already been sentenced for a similar offence in the north. He was descrihed as an i Xpert ill handwriting. Judge Si nr said that this was another it!u-t''al ion of why such olfcnces were being I ulnmitti-'i by- reason of tradespeople cashing big cheques from absolute .stranger.-,. lie could not sympathise wit h them.

TIIKKT SKNTKN'CKS. DCVKDIV, Juno I!). AI the Supreme Court, .John Milne, for breakine;. entering and theft, received 1 1 1 roe years in oaol or lforstal institution. Colin I‘Toderick McDonald, Robert McDonald. I). All Rath. Trank Alilmtl .McDonald :unl William Russel l.amh. breakinn, cntorinc mid I hol t were oaoii placed on probation for three years. DAM A OKS AO A I.VST .MOTORIST. CIIRISTC lIITK 11, June 10. After a hearing Insliito tun days. Martha Jane Hall was awarded T'Sl.'i lAs damages. Hazel Dashwood Sim L'lHO, Wilfrid Joseph Sim L'l'-’t! Ills, and William Smith AlaeCdbbon L'7o ds llld, against Tracy <• <>vietls and Charles David Couch for injuries received in a motor collision on a hill on a country road in November lasi. It was contended that defendants were on the wronj; side of the road, and that, seeing that a collision was inevitable, they preferred a head-on crash to going on the outside of Lite road ttl a dangerous corner. As the results of the collision, Mr llill had been permanently incapacitated from any form of activity, and Airs Sim was disfigured. while Joseph Sim lost an eyebrow. MaeOibbon also claimed for damages to Ids car.