SUPREME COURT.
Before His Honor Mr. Justice Stephen, WEDNESDAY-, JUNE 1, 1853. The Court was' opened this-day for the despatch of criminal business with the usual formalities. John Butler was indicted for stealing a piece of huckaback from the shop of T. K. Warburton, on the Uth April last. The prisoner 'had been previously convicted at the September sittings of a similar offence. It appeared from the evidence given before the Court that the prisoner was apprehended in the street by the police with the stolen article in his possession, and that Mr. Warburton subsequently went to the police station and identified it as his property, and as having been stolen from him that evening. „ Mr. Warburton could not swear positively to the identity of the prisoner as the man whom he saw leaving his shop with a bundle under his j arm, and the prisoner when apprehended stated he had got the huckaback from a person in the street to carry to some house in town, but could give no further explanation. The jury returned a verdict of, not Guilty, which appeared to create considerable surprise. This being the only case, the Court was then adjourned.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 818, 4 June 1853, Page 3
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197SUPREME COURT. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 818, 4 June 1853, Page 3
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