SUPREME COURT.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON-MONDAY. The Supreme Court criminal sessions opened this morning, before Justice Richmond. In charging the Grand Jury, His Honor said the calandar was not longer than usual, tut there were two or threo cases of a serious nature. One chargo was that of arson, in which the principal evidence was statements made by the accused himself. Another of at- . tempted murder was one in which a man inflicted a serious wound on his paramour, which might easily havo been fatal. Another serious case was > that of an unfortunate girl charged with the murder of a nowly borniu fant. His Honor said as the law at present it did not discriminate between cases of this kind and those of ordinary murder. If the jury satisfied that the child met a violent death at the hands of its mother after birth, it was their duty to return a true bill of wilful murder. Tho other cases were of ordinary larceny.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1576, 7 January 1884, Page 2
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162SUPREME COURT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1576, 7 January 1884, Page 2
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