SUPREME COURT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2589, 2 December 1893, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

At the Supreme Court, Auckland, Henry Thomas Atkins, a remittance man, got two years for the larceny of an opera glass; James Barnard twelve months’ probation for horse stealing; Nicholas Moore two years for indecent assault on a child 5£ years old; James Ferguson Morrison tnree years’ penal servitude for forgery and false pretences. Tiie criminal sitting of the Supreme Court opened at Wellington before the Chief Justice on Thursday morning. Cloak and Burton, on five charges o£ breaking and entering at Wel'ington,aud Joseph Knight, burglary at Feilding, pleaded guilty, and were remanded for sentence. James Mammox, for larceny at Pahiatua, was sentenced to 12 months. No bill was found against J. C. Warne, charged with embezzlement. The Grand Jury threw out the bills against J. O’Keefe, of Featherstou, charged with cattle-stealing, and against J. C. Ward, false pretences. In Kirk’s case the witnesses were not ready, and the Grand Jury were dispensed with till Thursday, When the private libel prosecution, Clark v. Haggeu was called on there was no appearance of the prosecutor, and the Judge said that if the Grand Jury had been discharged, he would have estreated Clark’s recognisance of £SO. As it was he would still have a chance of appearing until Thursday. James Mauuit, charged with stealing £8 from a drunken man, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment with hard labour. . Daniel Phillips, charged with indecent assault ou a gui fourteen years of age, was found guilty and remanded for sentence. Edward Wade Young was charged with flourishing a revolver in the face of a barmaid and .demanding liquor ■under threats. The case broke down and prisoner was acquitted.