SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81891, 21 November 1906, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association. Dunedin, November 20. . At the Supreme Court this morning, the Crown Prosecutor made a« application hi an adjournment c-fi tho trial of Findlay, charged with. the Papakaio murder, till tae Oamaru sittings on February sth, owing to the absence through illness of three necessary witnesses. It would greatly facilitate the trial if the case; were heard at Oamaru. Mr Haitian, for the prisoner, opposed the application, but offeed no objection to aa adjournment for a fortnight, until the witnesses were well. A change of venue should only be granted where the same was in the interests of justice. Judge Cooper fixed the hearing for December 17. If circumstances justified a further adjourn-* ment, the application could be reuewod by the Crown, but he declined to sanction tho application for a change of trial to Oamaru, seeing that the prisoner objected. Henry _ Mitchell, Wm. McPhersan, and Patrick Opperkuch were found' guilty of obtaining .£l7O from Joseph Dickenson by means of a con-, ndpnee trick. Sentence was defer-, red till to-morrow. Dunedin, November 20. At the Supreme Court today, Lift Foon, who had fired a revolver in the street, and wounded a young man, was convicted of causing bodily harm, tho jury recommending him' to mercy on account of the manner! in which he was frequently Sentenco. was deferred in this case, as also in the case of William White, found guHJty of stealing fowls. Tne hearing of the charge against Jo'nn I' indlay, charged with the murder . I W. H. Ronnie, teacher at Papakaio, was postponed till December 17, on' the. grounds of the illness of two witnesses. Mr Justice Cooper said he would make a recommendation that a reasonable 'sum be placed at tho disposal of the solicitor to make inquiries (0 onable prisoner to defend himself. Christehurch, Novem'oer 20. The trial of John Sage fon a charge of forgery was rcsur&ed at the Supreme Court to-diy, the case being; [that m which a jury failed to agree at the sittings last week. The indictment alleged that the accused committed forgery by altering certain orders for advertisements in the Spectator newspaper. The jury again failed to agec, and at the en<J of 'he four hours were discharged.