SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1930, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

(By Telegraph—Free* Association), PALMERSTON N., July 29. Opening the quarterly session of the Supreme Court, Justice,.Blair said Palmerston North could be congratulated in two respects, namely, its elevation to the dignity of a city, and the fact that there was only one criminal case for. trial. The case was only quasicriminal, involving the driver of a car for alleged : ■ negligence, thereby causing the death of another person. The Grand' Jury returned a time bill against John Joseph EVans, charged with negligent driving, thereby causing a death; at Mount Stewart, near Awahure. At the Supreme Court, Justice Blair and Air J. L. O. Merton (President of the Law Society) paid tributes to the late Sir Robert Stout. The bench and bar stood for a period in silence as a tribute to the former Chief Justice., TJMARU, SESSION. , > TIMARU, July . 29. The criminal -season at the, Supreme Court opened this morning. Time bills were returned in the cases of Henry Lawson Brown, sheep-stealing, two oharges; ! Harman Mahan, unlawful carnal knowledge;; Keith .Frank Turner.' ass Milt - and causing ;actual bodily harm. In the case'of Mahan, a plea of guilty ivas entered aiid: sentence was deferred • tiiFFrldhy.l, |