SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81892, 22 November 1906, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association. Dunedin, November 2i.At the Supreme Court, Liu Foongy who had been found guilty of doing bodily harm by filling a revolver, was ordered to come up_ for sentence; when called ou. William White, found guilty, oS fowl stealing, was sentenced to ona month. Lee Sun was charged with having sold "pakapoo" tickets to two constables. Mr Hanlon, prisoner's, counsel, at first pleaded a previous acquit- ' tal, but on the Court books being examined, lit was found that the entrywas "withdrawn," not dismissed.. The jury, after retirement, wore, unable to agree, and the Crown Prosecutor asked for a new trial at thff February silting, no objection being raised by ihq defence. Waltcv Henry Mitchell, Wni. Mci'licrson, and Patrick Oppertuch', convicted tin the- Supremo Court of! playing a confidence trick, whereby, they ea-'cd a country resident of were sentenced by Judge Cooper to; five years each, Auckland, November 21. At file Supreme CourU a middle-aged man named George Phillips was found guilty of indecently assaulting a boy, and also of committing an unnatural offence 00 a boy 13 years of age. Prisoner was sentenced to seven years and ten years' limprisonment on the respective charges, the sentences to run concurrently.