SUPREME COURT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1091, 5 April 1883, Page 1

SUPREME COURT.

Auckland, April 2

At the Supremo Court to day, Charles Weuer was acquitted of larceny and horse-stealing. Henry Whitaker Duval, for larceny as a bailee, received three years' penal servitude. April ;1. The Supreme Court was occupied all the morning in hearing the charge of cattle stealing against Thomas Gather-' cole. The accused was found not guilty. True Bills have been found against Mahuki and his 22 followers, on six ounts ; also against E. B. Walker and the others concerned in the Cambridge ejectment case, and against Whaikuita for perjury. The Bills were ignored in the cases of John and Jamo

Lannigan, tor malicious injury to property . Wellington, April 2. At the Supreme Court to-Hav, Mary Douglas, for housebreaking, was sentenced to three months, and William Harris, for housebreaking, was aequi' ted. .April 3/

At- the Supreme Court, Charles Thomas alias Guard, was sentenced on two chargi s for two years on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently, Richard Cildwell, William Collier and Alexander Bruce, 0 1 charges of larceny, were acquitted. Sarah Daylia, for sly grog selling, wns fined £lO and costs. Hokitika, April 2.

The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court were opened here by the Chief Jast'ce to-day. True Bills were found against Teunant, for embezzlement, Coutts for larceny. Shanks for larceny, Nelson for larceny, Feiguson snd Dunlop for cattle stealing, and Wylde for embezzlement. Tenwant pleaded guilty and was eentenced to nine -months, Coutts pleaded guilty and received six months. Shanks was acquitted. Nelson was discharged, no evidence being offered by the Crown.

Dunedin, April 2.

At the Supreme Court to day, Annie Jarvis, for concealment of birth, was sentenced to two months without hard labor. Two. lads named Patty and Wright, for housebreaking, wen? sentence! each to four months, J<nnes Maurice, for forgery, received nine months, Charles Vickers, for housebreaking, got five years, having been previously convicted. G. W, Winter, for embezzlement from the New Zealand Insurauce Company, was found not guilty, but was not discharged, ns there is another indictment against him. April 3.

At the Supreme Court to-day, G. W. Winter, for embezzlement from the New Zealand Insurance Company, was discharged,

Christchcrch, April 2.

Judge Johnston passed the following sentences to day :—lsaac Levy, four years penal servitude fer forgery ; Henry Dooru, twelve months' imprisonment with hard labor, for larceny from the person ; .Richard Carroll, alias Carl, three yearß penal servitude for larceny from a dwelling. In the case of William Leake, for attempting an indecent assault, sentence was deferred, as the Judge may reserve a point for the Court of Appeal. William Connor was indicted for burglary, and of & second

count o.? larceny from a dwelling. He was by an oversight convicted «>n the general indictment, though the charge of burglary was withdrawn. Mr htriuger, who defended him, raised the point that the verdict w«s not supported by evidence. Decision on the point was reserved till to-morrow.

April 3.

In Conner's case in the Supivrao Court, in which the jury found the prisoner guilty yesterday on an indictment for burglary, though that count had been withdrawn, His Honor re-called the jury to-day and asked if they had intended the verdict as one of guilty ot larceny. The foreman replied in the affirmative. The Judge then ordered the record of the verdict to be altered to larceny, and reserved for the Court ot Appeal the points raised by counsel, (1) that he had no power to re-ca'l the jury after such a lapse of time, (2) that he could not niter a verdict after it had been recorded. Sentence was deferred till after the appeal had been decided. Ra'ima J.ioob, a Ma »ri, was convicted of murdering his wife in January at Kaikoura. His motiv6 was angry at ber infidelity ivith his brother who had been fined for it by a Maori Court, It was proved in evidence that big.) words had passed between them jn»t before the murder, and the woman was heard to say she did not fear death. She was stabbi'd in the throat in eight (laces. The jury strongly recommended the prbjouei; to inerjy. The Judge said he baiievedv,it would not bo his duty to make any repr. sentation at variance with the recommendation. Sentence of death was passed.