SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 27 November 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association. Wellington, Tuesday. At the Supreme Court to-day Jauieß AlacAUiaou, convicted of assault, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. Auckland, Last Night, At the Supreme Court this afternoon, David Urecn and William Albert Sirnmonds were each sentenced to three years' imprisonment on a charge of breaking and entering the premises of tjuong Lee at Ponsonby and stealing the sum of £2O. " Wellington, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, two young lads named Frank Carroll and Francis Lyons charged with-setting fire to a building in Taranaki street, wcro found guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. They \vere_renranded for sentence. . i.i fyjj Dunedin, Last Nightr At the Supreme Court to-day, James Nicholson, Albert Chumside, and George Wilson were charged with injuring an hotel at Evans Flat with intent to annoy the licensee. At the conclusion of the case for the Crown, His Honor pointed out that there was very little, if anything, to connect Chumside and Wilson with the offence, and, the jury agreeing with this view, these accused were discharged. In Nicholson's case an alibi was set up, but the jury found him guilty on the first count. Sentence was deferred. Frederick Thomas Dart pleaded guilty to obtaining two suits of clothes by false pretences, and was admitted to probation for twelve months on condition that he paid the cost of the two suits and the costs of the legal proceedings, £lO in all, and also abstained from intoxicating liquors during the term of his probation, Edward Ernest Massey was charged with setting Are to a sofa and chair in a at Kaikoi'ai. knowing the building was likely to take fire, his intention being to defraud. The case was unfinished when the Court rose.