SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 19 February 1907, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

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DpNEDis, February 18. At the Criminal Court sittings, Mr Justice Williams, in his charge to the jury, made reference to a case of using indecent language in a public place, in which accused had elected to be tried by a jury. He said it was a pity the law allowed such cases to go beyond the Magistrate's Court. Margaret McCarthy, aged 10, a confirmed pickpocket, came up for sentence. The Judge decided to give her one more chance and warned her of the risk she was running.and ordered her to enter her own recognisance- of £25 and come up for sentence when called lip m.

Frederick Thomas, charged with assaulting Constable McKcnzic at Kaita ngata, was released on probation fcl 12 months, conditional on las abstain* ing from intoxicating drink and paying medical expenses, £1 Is. \v*. G. Baxter, found guilty of assaulting and robbing G. Robinson, was sentenced to three years' imprisonmeat,

The jury found "no 'M" in die case

against Mary Kearney, charged with the m..vder of her newly-born child, but she is being tried for concealment of birth.

OnßisTcircucir, February 18 At the Supremo Court to-day, two young men named Georcc Pidterson and William John Patterson, who liad pleaded guilty in tbo Loner Court to a L'liargo of stealing jewellery, valued at JJIOU, were admitted to probation for two years. In the case of George White, charged with perjury, the jjry lisagr.'ed a second liuie and a rcirial was fixed for next sittings. Divorce decrees were granted in the 1 ;ases of Molyneaux y. Molyneaux and mother, husband's pvtilvin, on the ground of adultery ; Murphy v. Mur)hy, wife's petition, on the ground of labitual drunkenness, cruelty and

failure to support; Anderson v. Andersen, wife's petition on tlie ground of desertion ; Proctor v. l'roctor, wife's i lelition on the ground of habitual

drunkenness and failure to support; Leilk v. Leith, wife's petition on the ground of adultery; Duke v. Duke. I husband's petition on the ground of I adultry.

Wiii.u.Miius, icbruary 1 V

Patrick Francis Brosnahan, ebarged at the Supreme Court to-day with having attempted to extort money from Edgar Hyde was acquitted.

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