SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 128, 8 September 1910, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

ACQUITTED OF MANSLAUGHTER, ' By Telegraph.—Press Association! Auckland, Wednesday. v Befofe the Supreme Court, James Alfrecl Lindsay, charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Lewis Sheard, who was killed by injuries sustained by a fall in Wellington Street on August 8, was found not guilty and discharged. Accused stated 1 that deceased was improperly interfering with his little daughter. He , snatched her away from Sheard And pulled deceased over. Accused saii| he was very excited, and did not ftygemW . if he afterwards struck Sheard. ' FALSE PRETENCES. Hamilton, T :st Night: In the Supreme Court. Yi illiam Green, who stood a second trial djuring the present sessions, was found guilty' of false pretences at Cambridge and sentenced to two years' hnrd labour". INDECENT Af 3AULT. - ■ Napier, Last Night. l At the Supreme Court to-day WilUam James Robinson was convicted of indecent assault on a boy, and sentenced !>y Mr. Justice Chapman to five years' im- - prisonment with hard labor. . TIMARU SESSIONS. Timaru, Last Night. In the Supreme Court to-day, Johnson was found guilty of Shaking a false declaration with intent to defifcud the Northern Insurance Company. She was discharged on her own recognisance of £ 100, to come up for sentence ' I called upon, the Judse considering tbft had already been sufficiently purilflled through the three trials ,she had'afloergone. Albert Whitaker (Ashburtonyijdppealed against a conviction for eelxug liquor in a no-license district. The *Ap- I peal was dismissed. In the nase ; in which in which interpretation of the trill of John Jackson was sought, judgment " was reserved. In a cose in which a Waimate farmer claimed compensation from the Waimat'e County Council for hind 1 tpken for road, Mr. Hosking, K.C., asked an injunction against the action,as plaintiff and defendant Council had entered into an agreemet settling the whole matter. Mr. Kinnerney, for plaintiff, contended the agreement was not valid* and advanced, a numbej; of reasons ' * the injunction sought should not';, be granted. Decision was reserved. "" * .