SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9571, 18 August 1909, Page 5

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

CHRISTCHURCH. By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. August 1,7. At the Supreme Court Jennings Shaw pleaded not guilty to a charge of perjury, alleged to have been committed by him in the Magistrate's Court Jn denying that he had travellfd by a certain tram on a certain date, and had used jobscene.language and assaulted the conductor. The jury after an hour and a-half's retirement brought in a verdict of gulty with a recommendation to mercy. Sentence was deferred till a similar charge against accused's brother had been decided. John William Smith pleaded not guilty to a charge of having made a false declaration the Justice 3 of the Peace Act. Smith had got an advance on pawn tickets in respect to which he later made a declaration before a Justice of the Peace that he had lost them. When the person who had advanced the money and had possession of the pawn tickets, went to redeem the 'medals which; had been pawned, he found that they had been uplifted. Accused admitted the facts, but through his counsel argued that the declaration was not a valid one within the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, as the form on which it had been made was not in accordance witn form 50, in that the words "and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908." were omitted from it. The jury by direction brought in a verdict of guilty,, and the legal point was reserved for tha Court of Appeal. Accused was released on his own recognisance of £25.