SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3, 1 September 1915, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

TIMARU SESSION^.

P«R PkK53 ASSOOUT/ON, j. Tim am, August 31

I At the I Supreme Court. the {Faii-lSe sheep stealing ease the jury 'found the accused/,! Pivtijiett.^ijot/ guilty. The prosecution was hased chiefly on the finding of sheep on accused's property hearing a "keyhole" earmark, which Chapman's «heep hove. It was proved that the "keyhole" was a Hawke's Bay brand; brought down on a-large shipment that was scattered over Canterbury by. consignees',.. ■ sales, and accused.'' ' DYuine'tt; had botight some ewes, as well as ChapnlrAf. 1 ' ! Tiie she?ep"bearing Chapman's brand was ;foni}dl. jyjiU,Duimettk-ear-mark recently made, but it w»s in Chapman's property, and Dunne.tt was recently fined for selling ' sheepskins with the ears cut off. He had killed at Chapnumis \:wid denied cutting off 'the ears.

Frank Allen, who lived in a hut in tlje district* founil guilty of breaking into'a store at Hinds, and stealing various goods. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. NAPIER SESSIONS. Napier, August 31. . The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court were opened to-day. the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) presiding, i Richard Thomas Hern, a man of weak intellect, pleaded guilty to having carnal knowledge of a girl under 16. and was remanded for ,sentence. Richard Fairehihl did not appear to answer a charge of obtaining money under false pretences, and on /the application of the bondsmen the case was adjourned. William James Hart was found guilty of theft From a dwelling, and remanded for sentence.

INVERCARCILL SESSIONS.

Tnvercargill, August 31

The Supreme Court opened to-day. Hugh Dick 'Cameron; aged 32, oil a. charge of forging and uttering; Frederick W. Ambrose, aged 36, on a charge of breaking and entering and theftj Wm. John Sycamore, IS years, for breaking and entering; and Arthur H. F. Fenn, 19 years, for forging two cheques, were ordered to be detained for reformative treatment for a term not exceeding three years. Sue Fun, a Chinaman, charged with indecently assaulting a under 16 years at Tapanui, was found guilty and remanded for sentence. Norman F. Boyce, 17 years, charged with unlawfully carnally knowing a jfirl over 12 and under 16 years, was acquitted.