SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 205, 19 August 1908, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

CiliUSicii L KCU UNUS. By Telegraph.—Bless Association. Curistchnrch, Last ~Mgui. At the SupK'me Lourt to-day Leonard Sutherland, lound guilty ot loigoij, was soniencea lo three months nnpiisonment. Charloae Muraguau was iiuuctcd lor tnat on April 18tJi lusu at Asnourtou .-he commitied the crime of .bigamy by muriymg Cicorge Wanatott, ncr mtjuana, James SLcpnea Moraghan, being suii alive, ills Honor put the is:Lto to tine jury, whether when accused went through the -second marriage ceremony she nad honest and reasonable belief tnat her husband was dead. Alter a retirement of about hall an hour, Uie jury returned witn uto answer "No' to the issue submitted, with the addition that they wisued Ins Honor to deal leniently WHll the accused. XUs llonor said that the jury's answer was equivalent to a verdict of

guilty. Addressing the accused, his jionor said that she had no douut uuen guilty of bigamy. Alter referring to the serious aspects of the crime in certain circumstances, his llonor said that though in the present case the juiy nad properly loitnd tlimt tiie woman had acted recklessly and though there were uo suspicious circumstances connected with the second marriage ceremony, there appeared to have been some suggestion that her first husband dead. lie thought he would be giving full ellect to the recommendation ol the jury if he ordered accused to enter into her own cognisances to come up for sentence when caned on. Thomas Vickcry was indicted for that on May '2lst last in the Magistrate's Court at Oxford he comnuLtv.'d perjury. After a retirement of twenty minutes the jury returned with a verdict of '"not guilty, and the accusal was discharged. John l'a"e was indicted on a charge of perjury in a case hoard at the Magistrate's Court, (hnsteluircili, on May IOUi last The case was not linislicd wihen the Court rose for the day.

DUNIiOJN SITTINGS. Dunedin, tot Higlit. At tlie Suproiue Court to-day llobt. Wells, charged on four counts with having received copper boilers knowrng them to have been stolen, wits acquitted. Frank George Mcliiop pleaded ■milty to charges of indecently assaulthe "iris in Mornington School, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. WE LLINtiTOX SESSION S. Wellington, Last Xiglit. William Uunn McKay was found o-uiltv at the Supreme Court to-day of "lealing clothing from Ohe steamer lilenlitTni. 110 was remanded for sentence. William I'M ward MacKie, charged wfth assaulting Samuel JuIHTp. n farmer of .Jonnsonville, and stealing from liim a gold. watch, was found ~uiltv of receiving stolen property and obtaining money by false pretences bv selling the same. He was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment.