SUPREME COURT.
[per press association.] WELLINGTON, This day. The Supreme Court Criminal Sessions opened this morning before Judge Richmond. In charging the Grand Jury His Honor said the calender was no longer than usual, yet there were tw© or three cases of a serious nature. One*charge was that of arson in which the principal evidence was a statement made by the accused himself. Another of attempted, murder was one in which a man inflicted a serious wound on his paramour, which might easily have been fatal. Another serious case was (hat of an unfortunate girl, charged with the murder of her newly born infant. His Honour said, as the law s'ood at present it did not discriminate between cases of this kind and those of ordinary murder. If the jury were
satisfied that the child met a violent death at the hands of its mother after the birth, it was their duty to return a true bill of wilful murder. The other cases were of ordinary larceny. Later. True bills have been returned in the following cases : Anderson attempted murder, Korth forgery, Jansen larceny, Kate Boyle murder.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1135, 7 January 1884, Page 2
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