SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 123, 15 November 1911, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. By Telegraph-Press Association. Wellington, Tuesday. At the Supreme Court to-day Frank' Roberts, charged with stealing a qusn» tity of leather, was granted probation for twelve months and ordered to pay costs. Cecil 'Braithwaite, charged with the theft of three diamond rin<*s, was ordered to be sent to Rotoroa for°twelve months. Accused's counsel said drink was the cause of the trouble. "So lons as we have drinking customs this sort of thing is bound to occur," said the Chief Justice. "I am not overrating the facts when I say that a third of the cases at the criminal sessions are due to tv"i-'» Sometimes the proportion is twoWellington, Last Ni»ht. John Baker was convicted of stealing a pheep, va i ued , at afc Ngahaur * the property of Patrick Kavanagh, Tnd was remanded for sentence. The trial of Edward Francis Moffitt, charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of George Gunther after a Wow m the street, was not.concluded when the court rose for the day. OHRISTOBURCH SESSIONS. Christchurch, Tuesday. In the Supreme Court, Thomas Keitch, who was convicted on the previous day for receiving a stolen cheque, applied for a new trial on the ground that the wdict was against the weight of evidence. The judge refused the application, but deterred sentence to permit prisoner to make an .application to the AttorneyGenera). v