GREYMOUTH SUPREME COURT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 296, 6 March 1928, Page 16

GREYMOUTH SUPREME COURT

SEVEN CASES FOR TRIAL Press Association. GREYMOUTH, To-day. The Supreme Court opened yesterday before Mr. Justice Adams with indictments against seven prisoners. His Honour said there was a satisfactory, absence of crime relating to dishonesty, but there were three cases of assault and causing grievous bodily harm, one case of indecent assault on a young girl, and two charges against one man of indecent assault on males. The grand jury found no bill in the case where a man of over 80 years of age, Neils Mortensen, was charged with assaulting Klaus Robert Nordberg at Te Kinga on October 8, 1927, causing bodily harm by shooting him :in the leg at his hut. Nordberg had declared his belief that Mortensen did not know what he was doing at the time. Three youths, Donald and John Minchin and William Haseler, charged with indecent assault and common assault on a girl of fifteen, were convicted of common assault and remanded for sentence. Charles Clayton was acquitted on a charge of assaulting, at Dobson, on August 19, John Voyce, so as to cause actual bodily harm. Voj’ce was wounded on the head during a row in the hut occupied by himself and accused, and he alleged that Clayton struck him with a poker during a dispute about paying their joint food bills. Accused, in evidence, alleging that Voyce was drunk, said the latter seized hold of him and that in pushing him away he caused Voyce to fall, striking his head on a box. Medical evidence showed that Voyce was intoxicated at the time.