SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2358, 26 November 1908, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

CRIMINAL SITTINGS

[Press Association.]

AUCKLAND, Nor. 2-5.

At the Supreme Court. William Francis "Wilkinson was sentenced to three years on a charge or stealing a mailbag, opening it, and receiving ? postal packet, kuoAving it to have been stolen.

WELLINGTON

Nov. 2-3,

At the Supreme Court to-day, •James Reed, -who h id been couriered of theft, was further remanded to se© if a "berth could be obtained for him on a ship. Gilbert Hangdon. charged with horse-stealing in the Xorthwood district, was found guilty, and sentence was deferred. John O'Sullivan, charged with assaulting Richard .J. Co ill son. was found guilty of common assault, and was fined £'d.

DLW'KDIX- Xov. i>. When William Lxiby, convicted of being a. rogue and vagabond, was brought up for sentence at the Supreme Court this morning, the Judge said that possibly the conviction was wrong. There was a law point he must reserve for the Appeal Court. If accused kept straight in the meantime and went to work, no sentence would he passed in the event of the conviction being affirmed. In the meantime he would he liberated on •his own recognisance. The case against Geo. Edwards Smith and Charlotte Elizabeth Smith, charged 1 with having ill-treated a girl under 16 years of ago in a manner hkely to cause her unnecessary suffering, was continued. The other counts alleged indecent assault. The male accused, in addressing the jury, -denied the allegations of improper treatment, and said that the chastisements inflicted on the girl were kind and firm attempts by himself and his wife to' do their duty to God and the girl herself. The jury returned -a verdict of guilty, and sentence was deferred. Jas. Wood was acquitted on a charge of committing a criminal assault at Duntroon. Beniamin Barker was charged with indecently assaulting a girl of nine yearn of age. The case was unfinished when the Court rose.