SUPREME COURT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1839, 10 January 1889, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

Chkiptuhubch, January 7. Jane Clarkson, for forgery and uttering got six months’ hard labour. Albert Analey, for larceny from tho person,, was sentenced to four months’ hard labour. John Fletcher, Herbert Fletcher, and Henry Holmes, three lads, for stoning some pigs to death, were ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. William Bentley, charged with forgery, was acquitted. No hill was found in the case of Thomas Brown Bain, charged with libelling John Ollivier. Jan. 8, Joseph Oram Sheppard was found guilty of larceny as a bailee of a promissory note for £9l- J6s 3d, given as an accomodation bill by Richard Norman Newby. Sentence was deferred. Bartbolemew Kane for stabbing Peter Copeland at Ashburton was sentenced to six weeks’ hard labour, Albert Goodall for horse stealing was sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labour Dunedin, Jan 7. Gleeson, on being convicted of ont charge of larceny, pleaded guihy to the other indictments against him, several minor convictions having been proved against him at Auckland. Mo gave his age as eighteenn. He said he h»d nothing to say, and was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude for house breaking, and twelve months hard labour for prison breaking. William Roaches, aged 71 years, who was charged with having committed an unnatural offence, was found guilty of an indecent assault and was sentenced to four years’ penal servitude. Alfred Yorke, for passing a valueless cheque, was sentenced to eighteen months, and Henry David Bloxham, for housebreaking, to two years’ hard labor. Wellington, Jan. 7. At tho opening of the criminal sessions this morning the principal point in the Chief Justice’s address was a reference to a case wherein a constable shot the man White in the wrist when endeavouring to arrest him upon a charge of horse stealing. White presented a double-barrelled gun at the constable, and endeavored to escape under its cover. As be turned the constable fired at the gun with the intention of disabling it, or making White drop it. Ho hit While on the wrist, and the man was then secured. The Judge laid it down that ths constable was quite justified iu what he did. James White pleaded guilty to two charges of horse stealing. Sentence was deferred pending the bearing of a charge of resisting and assaulting the police. After foui hours’ deliberation, the jury in the case against James While returned a verdict of not guilty. The jury, iu answer to the court, said they were of opinion that White did not mean to shoot Slight, and that tho latter had acted in a harsh manner in wounding him. The Chief Justice in discharging the jury commented strongly upon tho verdict, ana upheld Slighi’e conduct. Jan. 8.

James White was sentenced to four years' ponal servitude on two charges of horse stealing, sentences to run concurrently. The prisoner was previously convicted of robbery under arms at Christchurch and Dunedin, John Henry Bonnor, alias Baltborpe, on throe charge.of forgery and uttering, was sentenced to nine months on each charge, sentences to run concurrently. James Lee, charged with larceny from a dwelling, was acquitted. Ah Nam, a Chinaman, for breaking and entering the dwelling of another Chinaman, was sentenced to twelve months’ hard labor.