SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 15, 15 May 1912, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

DUNEDIN SESSIONS

(Per Press Association.) Dunedin, May 14. At the criminal sittings of the Supremo Court to-day, Susan Miller Wilson was found guilty of performing an illegal operation. Sentence was deferred. The jury, in bringing in their verdict, made a strong recommendation to mercy.

Frederick Percy Evans, an ex-em-ployee of the Dunedin City Corporation, was found guilty of a series ol offences, such as the theft of £lO, falsifying books, and forging an account on a voucher, and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. A youth named Claude Osmond Barker was ordered to come up for sentence when called on for stealing a motor bicycle.

Peter Henry Groig and James Alexander Groig were sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment and placed on probation for 12 months respectively for the theft of timber.

A charge of sly grog s'olling, preferred against Margaret Andrews, was not completed when the Court rose. CHRISTCHIJRCn SESSIONS. Christchurch, May ] I. The criminal sittings were continued to-day. The case of Robert .lames Wright, charged with attempting to carnally know a girl live years of ago, was continued. The jury, after twenty minutes’ retirement, found prisoner “not guilty.” John Maine, convicted of entering a dwelling house hy night, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.

The trial of Walter Richard Sadler, on a charge of unlawfully using an instrument with intent to procure a miscarriage, has commenced. The Crown’s evidence was similar to that given in the lower court. The defence was that the act was one of indecency only, and that no instrument was used and there was no intention to commit a crime. The trial is unfinished.