SUPREME COURT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10247, 25 May 1911, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

CHIMIN/". SESSIONS.

(By Telegraph-—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. Hie criminal sessions of the Supreme Court were concluded to-day with the hearing of a charge of fake pretences against a young man named William James Geddys Hughes. It was alleged that Hughies borrowed sums of money totalling £SO from two old people named Blake, at Karon, representing tihat he would shortly receive money from property in Wales. The accused was found guilty, and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. In the Divirce- Court, decree® nisi were granted in the case of Ellen Wis©man v. Ernest Wiseman (desertion) f Wiffiam Langford v. Florence Lang4 ford and Noah Morgan, co-respond-ent (adultery); Caroline Forrest Staplefcon v. Percival Ernest Staph ton (drunkenness, cruelty anct'adr - tery), and Herbert Montague Romberg v. Ada Rosenberg (adultery). u * SENTENCES PASSED. s'By Telegraph —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night. At the Supreme Court this afternoon, John Andrew Snowsitrand, aged 49, a carpenter by trade, who lives at Onehunga, denied a charge of .committing a criminal act on a. nine-year-old son. Accused was undefended by counsel. The jury returned a verdict of guilty' without retiring, and the prisoner was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, while on a further charge of incest, to which he pleaded guilty in th« lower Court, he was sentenced to a further ten years' imprisonment.