RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.—Dec. 27.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 201, 3 January 1873, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.—Dec. 27.

(Before H. W. Robinson, K*q., R.M.)

John Coekcroft was charged by the poke, for an assault on Sarah Lindsay.—lt appeared from the evidence adduced, that the defendant, who is living with Lindsay, went out ou the morning of the 26th, to obtain some provisions for t »e return until four o'clock in the after noon, when, the woman stated, he was drunk. He upbraided her for not ha - ing his dinner ready, and from her statement, made use of very foul language. She struck him with a poker, when the alleged assault upon her took place, which appeared to have been anything but gentle from theappoarance she presented in Court, her forehead beiug bound with sticking plaister, and her eyes not the brightest. The evidence of the police shoved, that an attempt to prove the woman drunk, was incorrect, but disclosed the tact that the man was locked up on the charge of beiuj; both drunk and disorderly. The defendant was fined £%

with the alternative of six Java' imprisonment, with hard labour. Th«. defendant was discharged on the charge of being drunk and disorderly, as the Magistrate considered the punishment awarded Hufficienfc. The Sue was paid. Decembek 23th. Police v, Joseph Smith.—Drunk and disorderly. Discharged with a caution.

January Ist. (Before H. W. Robinson, Esq., R.M., and W. Gtrumftt, Ks>q., J. P.) Police v. M'Donald.— Defendant was charged with assaulting C »n. stable Blair, and injuring his clothing, about 2 o'clock this morning, in the road opposite the Commercial Hotel. A great deal of conflicting evidence was given, each party charging the other with being drunk. The Bench after a Jong hearing fined defendant in the sum of £5 tor the assault and 30s for damage to clothing with costs of Court, which was at oive pud. Donnelly v. B ookes.—lnterpleader. —Mr. Kowlatt for claimant, Mr Bailey for defeii: e This was a eaae in winVli the defendant had obtained a judgment for £27, under which warrent of distress was issued, and property taken by Bailiff. The present planting a brother of the def ndant in the original cause, claimed a portion of the property levied upon. After a lengthened hearing, a small iron building was adjudged as the claimants property, the bulk of the claim remaining in. the hands of the Bailiff.