SUPREME COURTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 114, 30 May 1901, Page 2

SUPREME COURTS.

PEtt PBKSS ASSeOIATIOK. Napi»b, May 29. At the Supieme Court to day Walter Smith was found guilty of arstulting his wife, with in'ent t» do lier grievous bodily barm, and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. O'HRisTCHuaoH, May 20. The cue of, James Bowie Kirk, charged with embezzlement, was adjourned till to-morrow to ameod the , cour.t. In the case of Auguttus Meore, charged with embtzzlement, the indiotment was quashed, accused being now serving a teatenco for forgery. Dunbdih, May 29. At the Supreme Court, Mary Blue, charged with ftoalirg £4 from the pe>so!<, was acquitted, Frederick Herbert Perry was charged with having s'olen 27 fleeces of wool, the property of Messrs Ross and Glendining. Perry is a farmer adjoining tie proßecutois' BWkst'-ne Hill j»<o» perty. The fact of Pen y having shorn the BUoketote Hill sheep and nsving sold wcol was admitted by counsel for the defaite.; but the whittle thing was duns cpsuly bcfoi# neighbours. Th* on'y, mistake made was in branding these fihtep on the ba>k, ins'ead of en tha b-ck of the head. The jury retU' n- d a verdict of not guilty, adding that accused It ft the Couit without a stain ou his character. Perry was then arraigned on a charge under the samecircnms'anoet, of stealing four sheep. The oa*o was not con* o'nded, "