SUPREME COURT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2590, 5 December 1893, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

At Wellington Joseph Knight was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude on a charge of burglary at Feilding. The prisoner, who is a young man, had served ' sentences in South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales for house-breaking, his last sentence being ten years’ penal servitude. He told the gaoler that he was unable to obtain employment when he arrived in New Zealand, and had committed the burglary out of sheer necessity. The Chief Justice said that men of the prisoner’s class had been coming from other colonies lately, and the sentence he had inflicted was intended as deterrent. Daniel Phillips, for indecent assault on a young girl at Belmont, was sentenced to two years’ hard labor. Edward Cloke and William Burton, got nine months’ hard labor for larceny, the sentences to commence at the termination of the present sentences for similar offences. H. Vaileile, convicted of larceny, was sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labor. Richard Coyle was found guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy, for stabbing a man slightly with a bayonet under the impression that he had been knocked down by him. Dennis Driscoll got three months for passing a silvered penny as a florin. On Saturday Richard Coyle, for stabbing, was sentenced to ten months. Prisoner was a member of a local volunteer corps, and the Chief Justice said he inflicted a substantial sentence in order to make people feed they could not have dangerous weapons in their possession without a sense of responsiblity. At the Supreme Court sessions, Auckland, Joseph West, George Lawson, Oswald Bridges, for larceny, were each sentenced to a year’s imprisonment; Anthony Joseph, for forging and uttering to two years; and Te Hauraugi, for horse stealing to three years.