SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 200, 28 September 1909, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

AUCKLAND SESSIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, September 27. In the Supreme Court Prank Evans,' who was convicted of theft and who has forty convictions' recorded against him, •was sciH'-umt to four years' imprisonment. Frederick Sist, for attempting to obtain £l5O by false pretences, was sentenced to six months' imprisonnint. John ISandsberg, an Austrian, who was , found guilty of indecent assault, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. James Francis Maxwell, for theit, lorgery and uttering, went to gaol fur twelve months. Louis Wenninger, who forged a cheque, was admitted to probation for twelve mouths.

WESTPOItT SESSION'S. Westport, Last Night. The Supreme Court concluded its sit- I ting to-day. In the slander action of the mines niyhtwatchman v. Arthur Leaver, a claim for CIOO damages, thi* jury returned a verdict ftr a shilling. .Judge Denniston disallowed costs. Hi) a claim preferred by Ferguson HurreM. for the sum of ,CIOO for encroachment and possession of a -trip of hind nine inches in width, judg-ii-e L reserved, j liie hearing of a divorce suit. IJnsbamt | v. Husband, wis adjourned, co-respon-dent not having been served with a copy of t-e petition.