SUPREME COURT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 14 March 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

Per Press Association. Auckland. Marcli 13. Ihe Supreme Court opened this morning, Judgo Donniston presiding He congratulated the Grand Jury on the light calendar. There aro onlv (-iree cases, nono of them of a very serious character. puc bills were returned in all ca ße ». John lJelaney and Ralph T. Gibbons were Iwmd guilty of burglary and t.ieft at Westport and were sentenced t i J years imprisonment. Hokuika, March 13. In the Supremo Court this after, noon the Crown Prosecutor iatimatcd that bo would not proceed witli the evidence against Thomas McGee and Brancis Cairnoy for breaking an d entering into a hut on tho HokitikaKuroara road on October 11th, 1906 and accused was discharged. In tlie c lse of ft young man charged with unlawfully opening a letter, a formal plea of guilty was entered, but certain points wore reserved for the Court of Appoal Tho Judgo said in any case he would grant probation. In civil jurist cliod, several cases of no public importance were disposed of, and in he Divorce Court, m the case of Menary v. Mennry, wife's petition on the ground of desertion, a decree' nisi was made, Probate for several wills having been grunted, the Court closod at op.in , being the shortest sitting on record. H .n. o WuHuxi-i, M „ r( . h 13 At the Supreme Court-to-day, James JNosivorlhy, a local herbalist, was found guilty of selling an instrument knowing it was to bo used for an unlawful purpose. llic evidence showed that a police constable, at file request of his superior, visited accused's shop and told accused lie had got a girl into trouble ami asked for advice. lVosworlhy sup. Pl ed him with an instrument and instructed lil in in Ihe use of it. Counsel tor accu-ed raised the point that as tho eomtablo had no intention of unlawfully using the iustruuient, Noswortby could not be convicted of the erime with which he was chnrt-ed. Tho judgo reserved ihe point for the Court of Appeal, and Nosworthy was released on bail pjiiJin? the decision of the appeal.