SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 127, 7 September 1910, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

NAPIER SESSIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. 1 Napier, Tuesday. '■■; Addressing the grand jury at tho 'opening of the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Chapman congratulated the district!* on the "almost entire absence of crime/* there being only two bills—a false dfl* '. cloration and a charge of indecent as» > sault. AN APPEAL DISMISSED. i.: V Masterton, Tuesday. ! At the Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Edwards, the police appealed against a decision of Mr. C. C. Graham', S.M., in which the information against John Smith for keepng liquor for sale in a no-license area was dismissed. Tho information showed that respondent, who is employed by a brewer at Carterton, took liquor to Masterton and refused to deliver it unless paid cash,, ' according to instructions from his cni« ployer. The police contended that thist , constituted a sale. The Judge stated! that he wa9 surprised at the CrowM taking action. It was a great pity th« law should be twisted in administration where there was no intention of its breach. If appellant could succeed au\ all it must be upon straining the mean* >. ing of the words of. the Act and tha sacrifice of fairness and justice to tech* nicality. The appeal was dismissed. — ■ ■•;% WELLINGTON SESSIONS. j Wellington, Lost Night i In the Supreme Court to-day, befora Mr. Justice Chapman, H. C. Wamslejj pleaded guilty to two charges of em* bezzlement from his employers, Oscar Hewett and Co., ( of and was sentenced to three years' impria* onmeht on each charge, sentences to b$ .concurrent. . .< I Thomas Johnston was remanded from. jithe Magistrate's Court, to be declared! an habitual criminal. He was remanded!" till to-morrow. John Murdoch Miller pleaded guilty, to a charge of altering a birth certifo cate in order to obtain employment in the Railway Department, and was fine! £5, and was also ordered to pay £5 toi wards the costs of the prosecution. " A charge of indecent assault on a.boy against James Robinson was adjourned till to-morrow. In divorce, Bessie "Plirft was granted Jf decree nisi against Arthur Edwin Flinij on the ground of infidelity.