SUPREME COURT.
NEW PLYMOUTH SESSIONS. ;"■ ■''■if ! ■ : : o jjiiyy The Quarterly session of the SupremeCourt At New Plymouth was opened • yesterday before His Honor Mr Justice Edwards. = n ' I-IMf iV ■ , -JUDGE’S CHARGE. The (Judge, in his qharge, to. t}ie Grand congratulated them, on the small,,number of cases which they would have to deal with. There were only two bills for them to consider. Neither would present much difficulty in point of law or fact. The first was i charge against a man employed in he oilfields near New Plymouth of theft in;various forms of moneys from the house, where he was temporarily received), i /There would (1 bo no diffi?ulty iiij (bringing in a true hill in this -ase. The second case was one of those unpleasant cases in which a man holding a j|dod : position as clerk to the Moa Road Board and the Inglewood Borough Cduncil, had given way to temptatidn and from time to time appropriated moneys entrusted to him.j It presented eVen less-difficulty than the first. It did not appear to him that the misappropriation had been at any time contested, though the common jury might fail to find criminal intent. TRUE BILLS. True hills were returned by the Grand Jury in the oases of the King /. Arnold Victor Smith, breaking and mtering and theft of moneys, and the King v. William de Grouchy Ogier, six separate charges of embezzlement. ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT. William de Grouchy Ogier was charged on six different counts with having it a time when he was clerk to the \foa Road Board and to the Inglewood Borough Council, misappropriated noneys paid to him on terms requirng him to account for them to these mdies. The total amount of the alleged dedications was stated at £35 3s fid, Vllegations were made in evidence 'overing deficiencies amounting to over £SOO. Mr C. N. Weston, Crown Prosoeu■iOr, appeared for the Crown, and Mr •V. H. Johnstone represented accused, vho pleaded not guilty. The jury, after a retirement of over in hour, returned with a verdict of guilty on all counts, with a strong recommendation to mercy on the grounds that he had repaid the money ind rendered all possible assistance in bearing up the matter. His Honor intimated that lie would consider the jury’s recommendation, and would pass sentence at the coaalusion of the criminal cases to-day. ALLEGED THEFT OF MONEYS. Arnold Victor Smith, a young Russian Pole, who was not represented by counsel, pleaded not guilty to a charge of breaking and entering a dwelling-house and theft of £45 2s, and a further charge of theft of £4l from a dwelling-house. Mr C. H. Weston, Crown Prosecutor, conducted the prosecution. The hearing of evidence was not concluded when the Court rose. 1: »
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 24, 20 May 1914, Page 8
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457SUPREME COURT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 24, 20 May 1914, Page 8
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