SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 13 June 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

I'almerston .North, June li In the (supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Cooper, Patrick Brosnaghan, found guilty of false pretences, was sentenced to six months.

The case of Mclvee, charged with indecent assault, was adjourned till the next sitting in September owing to the principal witness, a little girl, contracting measles. Charles Duncan pleaded guilty to a. charge of assaulting and robbing I''. K. liivins of .Cl(i lUs and a gold watch at Dannevirke on April o, and was sentenced lo three years. Luther Martin .Murray charged with being nil accomplice in the same oH'ence, pleaded not guilty. Evidence at considerable length was taken, Duncan, in his evidence, stated that accused took the money, and lie took the watch and chain, lie admitted that they were all under the iulluence of drink at the time. Accused, Martin, strongly denied the offence, and said he knew nothing about (lie robbery until next day, when he was arjested. A verdict of not guilty was found, there not being sufficient evidence.

Auckland, Juno 12. This morning Mr. Justice Dcnniston, in the Supreme Court, presided over the retrial of John Solomon Taylor, on a charge of wilfully poisoning a horse at Hamilton. The jury had disagreed when accused came before the court a fortnight ago. The evidence was to the effect that a gelding owned by Alfred John Searle, a hoarding-house keeper, became ill, and accused, who lived with Rear!, wrote to a chemist for a drench. He inquired of an assistant how much arsenic it would take to Knock over a horse, and the same night purchased four ounces of poison from another chemist. The horse died next day, and its death was due to arsenical poisoning. Accused's explanation of his purchase was that he bought the arsenic to kill rats at Rearl's house. He was found guilty, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.