SUPREME COURT.
CHARITABLE JUDGE AND JUIJY
(Per Press Association.) Christchurch, last night. At tho Supremo Court to day Wm. Diokio was found not guilty on a charge of attemptod rapo on a girl at Kaiapoi, and guilty on a charge of assaulting and beating tho same girl. Ho received three months’ imprisonment, His Honor remarking that tho jury had takon an oxceodiy charitable view of accused’s ease. John Akefield, who pleaded guilty to having committed a breach of the Chattels Act by selling and delivering chattels which ho had given as security for a loan, and also getting £2O by false pretences, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Hy. Wagstail, who pleadbd not guilty to a charge of horse-stealing, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. John Whitfield was acquitted on a charge of breaking into a shop and stealings goods. i^
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 959, 4 August 1903, Page 2
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141SUPREME COURT. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 959, 4 August 1903, Page 2
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