SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 191, 11 February 1914, Page 7

SUPREME COURT.

CHRISTI'IU'ROII SESSIONS. A KKCORU CALENDAR, j | ISv Telegraph—Press Association. | J ' ' Christchureh, Monday. | i The quarterly criminal silting of the 'Supreme Court opened to-day before J,'Mr. .histice Denniston. There was a ('heavy list for trial, easily a record | numerically. His Honor, addressing the Grand Jury, said the calendar was an exceedingly .formidable looking one, consisting of forty-four charges against twenty-three j persons. The Grand Jury returned true 'lulls in all cases except in the case of J. C. Ashwin, charged with a breach of (he Bankruptcy Act, in not keeping proper books. This bill was thrown out, ] and Ashwin was discharged. >l Sentences were passed as follows:--J Stephen Gohling, for theft, was declared lan habitual criminal; Charles Larsen, I burglary, four months; Norman Leon- , avd Fiiidlay, forgery, live charges, eight-' ! een months: Alfred Howard, theft, four I charges, ordered to ucme up for senj tence when called on; Frederick Dyson, 5 theft of a ring, four months; .Matilda I ;! S. -Streeter, theft, committed to the I .' Salvation Army Home for twelve i ] mouths; Frederick Jackson, theft of n j I motor cycle, sentence deferred. j