SUPREME COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10279, 14 May 1919, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

VERDICT OF GUILTY IN SEXUAL CASE.. Before-tho Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout)>the criminal" sessions of the'Supremo"CourtVere continued'yesterday. .A young man named--WflKanr r rßans.-t-. nerman Kogefsr pleaded not guilty to a,, charge of indecent assault on a girl aged six yoars and six months. i Mr P. S. K. Macassey appeared for the Crown and Mr R. Kennedy for the accused. Mr W. W. Appleton. was foreman of.<>the.~jury. > ■ >*-•• <» •> »> • After a retirement of half an hour the juryT returned a verdict of- ■guilty,' „. with a reoflmmendntion'that > accus.ed , lje'"' given reformative treatment. His Honour: That probably would be tho best. The lad has been' brought up m-had surroundings and is probably not altogether -to blame." Sentenoe was deferred till Saturday, '_y."OASES J.T~cmKTCHURCH.;:Pre«i» Association. ' '.'•;' -*X> OHRISTCHURH, May 13. -At the Supreme Court to-day Alma Quintal! was sentenced to twelve months' reformative imprisonment for theft. 1 '

Edward Cornelius Sullivan, who had pleaded guilty in the lower court to several charges of .theft, was sentenced to six "months' imprisonment.

Harris Thomas Hunter, a Postal offi* cial, was found not guilty of theft of a,- postal ...packet containing a.,,;, cheque for £ll 4s. DUNEDIN SITTING. , DUNEDIN, May 13. The Supreme Court criminal sittings opened to-day. Mr -Justice Sim said the calendar comprised charges against eight persons. Three __ offences were„, ■against" the "person "arid "the others. against-property. . *(.»■