SUPREME COURT. DECEMBER SITTINGS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 62, 13 December 1845, Page 3

SUPREME COURT. DECEMBER SITTINGS.

Want, of space obliges us to condense our ,' c^>ort 'of thijJ jfro^eeuings' of Me Supreme V Court"." Tie "trials possessed verylutle public interest. . . . . Thomas Pilcher was tried for receiving stolen property ; he was also tried for stealing a waistcoat) the property of Mrl Watson. He was found guilty of both offences, and sentenced to seven years 7 transportation. William Huff, and Patrick M*Kay, privates of the 58th Regt., were tried for burglary, but found, guilty of larceny, and were •entencjed to eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour. Patrick M'Donald^r'wiite of the 58th Reg. was, found guilty, of breaking out of gaol while . waitipg for. trial,. and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. - Janus Larry and Cornelius Badger, two Americans, were tried and found guilty of felony and. larceny. in. stealing a quantity of vine from Messrs. Bethune & Hunter's 3tores, l an4 sentenced to two years' imprisonment, with hard labour. Thomas M'Lcughlin, private 96th Regt., was found .guilty of larceny, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonn ent, with hard laboar. " * ' Jbt Hipu, a native, was tried and found guilty of having stolen a piece of print from Mr. Lyon's store about twelve months since, trad sentenced (under the Native Exemption Ordinance) to pay eight pounds, or four times ihi value of the goods stolen. .The fine was paid for the prisoner. • The prisoner bad esfrom custody amt Was recaptured only a fortnight before trial.