SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 188, 7 February 1912, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. ' . By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Tuesday. i At the Supreme Court, Granville Hunt 'was sentenced to eighteen and twelve months' imprisonment on two charges of forgery and Jittering, the sentences, to be concurrent. * Wellington, 'Last fright. 'At the Supreme Court to-day the jury failed to agree in the case in which Frederick William Green, late secretary ' of the Ws#ngt?n Working Men's Club, was charged • with stealing £175 be- ■ longing to the club. The case will be retried to-morrow. The jury also failed to agree concerning the 'prosecution of William Frederick Jones,. charged with forgery. The defence sejyup .was mistaken ifl«n- , , tity. The case will be taken again dur? ' ing the current.-sitting of the court. AUCKLAND- SESSIONS.

Auckland, Tuesday. In the Supreme Court a decree nisi, was granted against Henry Eliott, on the ground of misconduct; also in Edith Evelyn Bariiett v. Ernest■ Norton' Barrett, misconduct with Rose > Darnley; Winifred Griggs v. Alfred John Griggsj for miscopdiict; John Louis Hansen v. Margaret Jane Hansen, for misconduct. PALMERSTON SITTINGS. ; Palmerston N., Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, before • « the Chief Justice .(Sir Robert. Stout), Johii Cairns was acquitted on a charge of impersonation at Taihape and making , a false statement to the deputy returning officer of the Waimarino electoral district. , ' W.' T.' Bowater was charged with a breach of the Bankruptcy Act, in that ' he did obtain property to the value df £596 15b 6d from Messrs. Abraham and Williams by a false statement of his: affairs. Evidence was concluded tonight, and legal argument will be heard to-morrow morning. ' Emily Jane Chow was'granted a decree : nisi in three months froin Robert Chow, for desertion. A ONE-LEGGED THIEF. al .u „ Timaru, Last Night. At the Supreme Court only one, criminal case was completed. ,W. Evans, a ' young man' with one leg, was convicted of house-breaking, and thefts at Rakaia and Washdyke. A list of previous convictions for like offences 1 was produced, and Judge Denniston sentenced him,to five years' imprisonment and declared him to be a habitual criminal. of of a bic ycle against ' w. N. Clanson,. over which the jury disagreed last session, was begun; but was not completed.