Supreme Court, AUCKLAND. MONDAY, JUNE 10th, 1889. (Before His Honor Mr Justice Gillies). REGINA V. WOOD.

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Supreme Court, AUCKLAND. MONDAY, JUNE 10th, 1889. (Before His Honor Mr Justice Gillies). REGINA Y. WOOD.

Joun We od was called to answer a chaise of unlawfully wounding, and surrendered to l;is bail on a charge of inflicting previous bo lily harm on Fiederick Ilytie (»n Ulh Febiuuiy. Ho pleaded uuilty. Mi R. Hi'skctli appeared for the accused, ami said ifc was on his advice tiie pica was put in, and he applied that the matter miyht be allowed to br- settled l-y compromise. Dr Laishley, who appeared for Ilydo, assented to the proposition, and said the 'aw was not put in motion by Mr Hyde. The Crown Prosecutor considiM'o.l it. was a ease which might he dealt with in the. manner proposed, as those was no intention to inflict the injury which had been caused, and if] His Flonoc assented to the pioposal he would not offer any evidcuee in the ease. His lloiior said he had looked into the deposition?, and it appeared to him to be a c, su in which Ihe pe«son injured could adopt a mil lemedy. Tho i lo.v by wliich the ppi=on injuied lost his eye was little more than accidental, and he approved of the compromise. He would ord^r accused to enter into his own recognizances of £100 to come up r or sentence when called upon. lie wished it to bo distinctly understood that a man could not commit an as«:uilt nn 1 then hush up piocecdings. No felony could be compromised, and he wished that to be distinctly undoistood by the public. — Herald