SUPREME COURT.
Saturday, April 7. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Richmond.) The Court sat at 10 o'clock. FORGERY. Peter Bonnell was charged with feloniously altering a cheque and with uttering the same. Prisoner pleaded not guilty, and was undefended. The case for the prosecution was that a cheque was drawn by a Mr. Taylor in favor of prisoner for £2 2s. in payment of wages. Prisoner altered the amount to £2O 25., and got the cheque cashed at JCastleberg’s store, Masterton, where he wrote his name on the back of the document. Andrew Taylor deposed to giving prisoner a cheque for £2 2s. on the 19th August last. The document produced in Court was the same, but it was not in the same state as it was when given to the prisoner. The amount had been altered from £2 2s. to £2O 2s. Witness never gave prisoner a cheque for the latter sum. Rowland Jacques deposed that he was at that time a storekeeper in the employment of Mr. Castleberg. On the 21st or 22nd August, prisoner came into the shop, purchased some 17s. worth of goods, and paid by cheque for £2O 2s. Thomas Henry Mills, of the Bank of Australasia, and Mr. Irons, cashier at Castleberg’* store, were examined. Being asked what he had to say in answer to the charge, prisoner said he had not himself altered the cheque; but after he got it he showed it to another man with whom he get drinking at a publichouse, and this man must have altered it, and then banded it back. His Honor summed up, and the jury retired. On their return into Court, after an absence of a very few minutes, they returned a verdict of guilty of uttering, and not guilty as to the forgery. His Honor commented oh the gravity of the offence and the necessity of awarding examplary punishment in such cases. Prisoner was then sentenced to four years imprisonment, with hard labor. This concluded the criminal business of the present sittings of the Court. The Court then adjourned until ten o’clock on Monday, when the civil cases will be proceeded with. ,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5005, 9 April 1877, Page 4
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358SUPREME COURT. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5005, 9 April 1877, Page 4
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