SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 216, 12 March 1914, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

I'IIISOXEUS SENTENCED. By Telegraph.—Proas Association. Napier, Yesterday. Jfoani Hutu Hakiwai, on a charge of stealing a motorcycle, wan released with a year's probation, liars I'utiliana, for forgery, was sentenced to twa > ears' hard- labor, and thrco years' reformative treatment-. Tiainona Karctu, for theft of motor-cycles, was given twu years' probation, .fames Mills, on a, [ charge of assaulting his wife, was ordered to come up for sentence when called on. Lyle Stanley, lor theft, wag .«e»teneed to twelve months' hard labol, and a period of reformative treatment. James Ch&nning was acquitted 0:1 a charge of arson. . , ..... Napier, Last Nig'it. At the Supreme Court'the who'j (f the afternoon waß occupied in the i>«•.!ing of two charges aaainat a lad, Vu- , uon Hodgson, aged 18 years, of indccoiV ;ly assaulting two boys. The case vM' unfinished when the court rose foi W day. . Blenheim, VesUrd . i ■* In the Supreme Court, the Cli'if 7Y»« tice, Sir Robert Stout, coii;»vft* m'a" the district on the practical «!»»i:. t of crime. The only case was ono of l<<'. ik* ing and entering and causing jiric'.Mlif bodily harm, the men concerned liuv.ng come to the district from. M trt* borough. William Gibson, Hugh liiohards Plimmester, alißs Richard Kelly, and John Campbell were found guilty with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. They were sentenced to iovt years' reformative treatment, h SOUTHLAND SESSIONS. InTcrcargill, Last Night At the Supreme Court, before Mr. Jmtke Sim, W. Lyons, aged 23, who hai pleaded guilty to breaking and entering, was sentenced to reformative treatment for three years.