SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1927, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association

SUPREME COURT SESSIONS. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 16

Right prisoners for trial appeared at the Supreme Court to-day. Judge Adams presiding.

To the Grand Jury lie said there was one charge against, a woman of having murdered her ihild. It was a deplorable case. Another serious case was an insietment against three men with having used an instrument for the purpose of procuring miscarriage. Two of the men. according to the evidence appeared to have been directly concerned in one of tin* eases involved, and the other 'man direetlv connected with the other ease involved. The Grand Jury would have no difficulty >u coming to a conclusion. WANGANUI. Aug. 1(1..

At (lie Supreme Court Justice Reed, congratulated the district oil the absence.' of crime. Only two prisoners were sentenced. Gilbert Joseph Michael McGrath, sentenced to a year's reformative treatment for theft of 6126 3s lid from the Railway Department at Ohakune by falsifying the pay sheets and time sheets, etc. His Honour in passing the sentence remarked the only way to pi os out this sort of thing was to pass a. sentence that would ho a deterrent to others in similar positions. The Crown Prosecutor explained that in the Lower Court it had been hinted that under this system it was easy to manipulate the funds of the Railway Department. He assured the Court it was the best possible scheme the Department could adopt, short of going out and counting the men employed on the permanent way. Peneki Simon was sentenced to seven years hard labour on charges oi rape and carnal knowledge of a. girl eleven years of ago at Oreoro. The Judge remarked this was a particularly bad case and had he been a Furope:,,, he would have considered inflicting corporal punishment.

COMMITTED TO A MENTAL hospital. CHRISTCHURCH. Aug. 16. Charged with the murder of an infant "child at Hook. Ellen Robinson, married, to-day was found not gmlty in the Supreme Court on the ground of insanity. Judge Adams ordered she be detained" in a mental hospital till the pleasure of the Minister of Justice is known. ABSENCE OF SERIOUS CRIME. NAPIER, Aug. 16. There are five criminal cases lor trial at the Supreme Court which opened this morning. Mr Justice. Ostler said the district was maintaining its good name for absence of serious crime.