SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 65, 7 September 1911, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

X APIER SESSIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, Yesterday. The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) gave liis verdicts adjourned from yesterday. William McCarthy, found guilty of stealing from a dwelling, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Frederick Ewart, for cruelly illtreating a horse liy starving, was lined £l3. At to-day's sittings Renata Graham, a Maori youth, was acquitted 011 a charge of carnal knowledge. AITKLAXJ) SESSION'S. THE KIX( ISLAND Mt'RDER CilAltflH. Auckland, Last Night, The hearing of the (barge of murder preferred against Martha .Tape O'Sliaughiiessy in connection with the death°of Miss Elsie Alexandra Holland at the residence of tlie accused in Kingsland 011 or about .Time 13 last was continued at the Auckland Supreme Court to-dav. The case for the prosecution had not concluded when the Court rose.

Timimi. Last Xight. At the Supreme Court the Chinsen thefts ease, in which the jury disagreed yesterday, was postponed till next session. Tn the Asliburton carnal knowledge. case a verdict of guilty was returned, and sentence was deferred. A Timaru man wa.s charged with an unnatural offence, and" was acquitted '•without a, stain on his character.'' The informant, a boy of thirteen, is a degenerate, and had been under hospital treatment.