SUPREME COURT.
FIB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, April 29. The Supreme Court criminal sessions: opened this morning. The Chief Justice, addressing the grand jury, said the number of cases (thirteen persons with eleven or twelve charges) was about tbe same as last year, but figur s were not an abs lute test of th" criminality of the district, «s cas s now c>rr.e direct to Court when th; ac used pleaded guilty. There was one c> se of murder, another of attempted mu>der, a very serious assault, and anot' er of arson, which seemed more like wilful j mischief than anything else. Ah ta the ciss against Eatherine Alexander and Thomas Murcott, *f Ma*'erton, charged with murdericg ihe former's newborn infant, hiR Honor direc:ed the grar.d pry that they must (five evidence that the hody found was that of the girl's child before they could return a true bill, unless i'. was tho*ii that the case was wilful killing. The charge would in any case be reduced ■ o manslaughter.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 100, 29 April 1902, Page 3
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168SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 100, 29 April 1902, Page 3
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