RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, HAMILTON.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1595, 23 September 1882, Page 2

RESIDENT MA GIST R A TE'S COURT, HAMILTON.

Tiiuhsday.— (Before Mr Northcroft,R.M.) Assault Cases. Alexander McLeod was charged on the information of J. S. Milne, with having, on the 13th inst., unlawfully assaulted one George Marshall. Mr O'Neill appeared for the informant, and Mr Hay for the defence. The magistrate ruled that no one but the party aggrieved could lay the informatiou, and accordingly dismissed the case, without costs. Alexander McLeod waa then charged under the Malicious Injury to Property Act. The evidence for the prosecution was very similar to that advanced for the defence in the case McLeod v Marshall, heard the previous day, and without calling on the defence, His Worship dismissed the information without costs. J. S. Milne was then charged with having assaulted Alexander McLeod. This case arose out of the others, and the evidence was of an almost precisely similar nature. His Worship considered the charge proved, and fined defendant Is and costs. In the case McLeod v. Marshall, heard on Wednesday, the Bench inflicted a fine of £1 and costs. Mr Marshall gave notice of appeal. A number of civil cases of an unimportant character were heard and disposed of.