SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 8 February 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association. Wui.i.inoto.n, February 7. At (he Siprenie Court, Ernest Dyton, aged 17, cluu'ged with iudecenl assault oh a nine year old girl was found guilty of common assault and admitted to probation for 12 month*, and being ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution. Francis John ll.iuckc was ordered to keep the peace lor I wo years, and pay the costs of the pro. scution. This mitu bail been discovered hanging about his cousin's house at mulnighl, and when the\ sullied oui (o chastise liini, he fired a revolver, The jury had acquitted him of Ih'tng Willi intent but fouu.l.hiin guilty of common [jus-mult. Kenneth Ktdd and Michael O'Donnoll were charged with assaull and robbery. Kidd pleaded guilty, mid O'Donne'li was found gui'ty of assault only Sentence was deferred. William Condon, who had been acquitted or, the previous day of indecent assaull, wa»; put forward on a second charge of a similar character. The Crown offered no evidence and prisoner was discluu'ged.

Ai-uki,an]>, February 7. At the Supreme Court criminal sittings to-day, Sarah AlcPhund, for unlawfully abandoning her live months old child, was sentenced to three months imprisonment. John Ploughman, charged with committing an unnatural offence, was found ajksuilty and discharged, |AI