Supreme Court.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 33, 7 July 1885, Page 3

Supreme Court.

At the Supreme Gou^t: ta-day.Watene sßEaßngi^fc'r.ltfrb&yv'ifte^sentenceli iio 6 ' .iriontihsjiaiid J'oseph'Hooper, for larceny \ JSpap^j^Ciku^. .■..•',,•.:.■■ . . | r .j Jn,jthe.i SupreEpie. Court J/. .A;.' fVori £liyij&Jc^ipr^^ ; .sSinl^ilHaißSv alias uMlendale,' for the jewellery- robbery at Jenness's pleaded euUty. Sentence was deferred until Wed-i ' . ,•■•■_; -. ■.-,' ■ / ;* 4ft ? ; ; V ;^"- r -';;. Tuesday, p *^t Me ,idQrnin«j, *fbe"ft>re;''SLfe "ilonor the ', Chief ! Justicef •*Wi&irigiTaylor. who was found guilty at \thb v January/ sittings of, the Supreme *jpo|urt, for misappropriating trust lunds,' J^s^jSgntence^tQ; fiyeyears; iHisHonoi? fTtvylor, said that his nrßtj j^ppini^miniiregard-to the'-cttse, was = that the highest penalty of the law sKould be; . imposed. The offence bern^- aggravated . j&y*=th#'pbsition^Qc^^^ wiieii'he I betrayed; tho trust deposed' m him,; hu**oriteyk»wing this opinion he to^9d^edr>it! ont'EdcouHt of the age of ,-. i^y.loiriiaad he;; thouffht^thftt 1 a - sentence; pofEVe'years wouldiiieet the case. " I ' y "?t X- '"'CHBiSTCHijHcai IVJondavv stiii.^he' 6rimm^r>sittiii^pf thp Suprei^ «<3tluTt'bpened > ' f tlife"*mprniiny ! ,*:ii|f^ifli'- l '|Mt( V?J^ffis\s&nfc^ ; ji'Hidnb.r^aid he : regret^ tfeat he could. not congratulate the I ' district ' upon the; calendar jjfor both as fo-the^numberiubf ''tne* offences, ! tho iiumbe.K .of prisoners,' and 'the cliaracter of the offences, it was T^uluaUy 1 ' Mvy. j ;; Alfred BuckleY, who! 'toajfcbeien Convicted of resisting a. sheriff's "J Hdilin^^ima.; : w i hich' conviction;, ,tte Qqurt. *'bf A*psoa| had sustained, ■ came iup • Jfor< . s%ftsance, -IJis Honor said this^was; the *fijfstjtime ,wl. ; tlie history of : the colony; t Vhat fiie. Offence had been, declared' an one, and considering the'; trouble to.; ?which" '>the' ; a'ccbsed ? had, already been put, the case would be mci; by a ,finat»fs£'sl .'J^CapSitick, breaking! ..Smithersy breaking-^into> a- ?warehbus^ Y~) at; iA*hi)urton,^were both 'sentenced S^thieei' •-•yeafs'' 'penal servitude.^^ Jamesi fcfiennelly, J'chargied with iprgingj^a the^Golomal^tank .'of; * "New' Zealand; was '[. ' sentenced to : , five; "y^^Jl^iilj 'servitude. W. ; , Mbho, and' for -'-robbery. ,withi % ,yWas^fifiiitenced— ;the former -to; .^fiye j^nia toi three years' '-penat ..sijgrYitw.de. ■■: jMatth>aw;!:Kernv^far^ liorse-j * stealing, was sentenced to five years^pehalj' . i-ser^itude* *> : -< -■■:■ ■ ■'.•_• '■**■''* ''[,'^yy \