SUPREME COURT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2323, 25 February 1892, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

At the Supreme Court, Christchurch, on Monday, John Charles Dawson, charged with stealing a horse, buggy, and harness, pleaded not guilty, and was undefended. He was found guilty of false pretences and sentenced to turee years' hard labour Michael Corcoran was found guilty of robbery from the person, and sentenced to 12 months' hard labour. William Carter, John Aldon's, and Charle3 Cockroft, three lads, charged with rape on a girl 12 years of age, wera acquitted. The Grand Jury found true bills in all the cases except that of Emmanuel Font, charged with setting fire to the ship Everest on Tuesday. W. Mardon, who had pleaded guilty to several charges of embezzlement, was sentenced to six months. —John Lindsay pleaded guilty to forgery aiid uttering, and was admitted to probation for twelvemonths, and ordered to repay the sum received for the forged cheques and expenses. If the amount is paid within six months he is to be then released from police surveilance. —Norah Kyle, who pleaded guilty to assaulting a bailiff, was bound over on her own recognisances to come up for sentence when called, and pay expenses, £lO, within six months.—Rose Adams, charged with stealing a sum of £lO 10s from George Dean, pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor, a labourer, came to town with a considerable sum of money in a purse, met accused in a hotel, and subsequently went to her house, where accused took him by the throat, abstracted the money, and threw him outside. The jury after half an hour'B retirement could not agree whether the prosecutor had money on him. They were ordered by His Honour to again retire and the evidence of the prosecutor would be sent to them.—Patrick Harkin, charged with' stealing a cheque, the property of James Brown, pleaded guilty to finding the cheque on the street and cashing it. His Honour said that if he extended the provisions of the Probation Act to him it would lead men to commit crime with the expectation that they would get off. He sentenced Harkin to three months' hard labour.—George William Wright pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing £3O from Adam McPherson. The jury without leaving the box returned a verdict of guilty, and he was sentenced to twelvo months' imprisonment. AtGisborne, Alf red William Croft, late Deputy Official Assignee, who pleaded guilty to five indictments of embezzlement, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude oa, s each, the sentences to be concurrent.