SUPREME COURT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1439, 10 December 1885, Page 1

SUPREME COURT.

Napier. Dec, 7. The Supreme Court opened it* cnmin il sessions this morning. Paul Victor, a Frenchman, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude for hon*ebraak<ne, and the youth Dcdisaon, also French, re. ceived two years' alao for housebreaking. In the most serious case, a charge of in. decent ass-ult on acmld, the Giand Jury i threw bin the bill, lie G' amHers an up* plicht on watt made fora chnge of veuui in tl.e libel ac'tou Gnihh (U-«- poM master hire) versus Evening News Company, on the ground that th* re was a strong feeing exiatinp in t’e cl as from which the -pecial jury was drawn againt the paper in question. After considerable argument the 'matter was ordered to stand o\‘er temporarily. During the proceedings the Chief Jdstide referred in strong terms to what he named a disgraceful and i-candalblis article in Saturday's News, written with the patent object of inflip Doing this Court in this application. He said the article whs a contempt of ! Court in comiueritirfg pb'a ca«e subjudiee , utid fchh-tobh w- rHb J lk : nguagc Was very reprehensible. He added ’hat he had initrUcfed the Registrar to forward a copy of the paper to the Att'orncy-Genervl, calling his attention to the article. Dec. 8. To-day Anderson Was found guilty of arson, and sentenced to three years’ penal servitude. : . Invercargill, Dec. 8. At the Supreme Court to-day, Robeit Melles and J. P. Casey pleaded guilty to charges of forgery. The former, a first 'ffender, was sentenced to I*2 months; the latter, who Imd several previous con- ' nitons recorded against him, to three years’ ! penbl servitude. In* the case of Bridget Campbell, for fire raising, the jury were unable to agree, sud were locked up for the night, If an agreement is not pome to they will be discha'ged and accused ined before a f r esh jury tomorrow. This is all the busim-sa, with ihe exception of an speeal cawe, To olinfohV. , McCulloch, R.M. The appellant was sentenced to 48 hours’ imprisonment for indecent language in « public pi ,ce. An Hpplicstioti for a writ’of habeas corpus m the case of Midi ael John Cro«, recently sen fenced to three om.ii ha’ imprisonment for fraudulent bankruptcy by Jiidge Ward, will also be Wen.