SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2666, 23 November 1909, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

SITTINGS AT AUCKLAND

ri’Eit I’uksr Association.! AUCKLAND, Nov. 22. At the Supreme Court, to-day, Walter Clues,alias William Bailey and Joseph Phillips, alias James Murphy, pleaded not guilty to a charge that on August 30tli at Otahuhu, they did assault one James Clarke doing him actual bodily harm. The jury returned a verdict of. guilty against both prisoners of a joint assault and they were sentenced ta one month’s imprisonment each. William Preston, for theft of £2 from the dwelling of Josephine Harrod was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment with hard labor. Isabel Sinclair,, charged with concealment of birth, was, ordered to come up for sentence when called.upon, the Door of Hope authorities undertaking to ' take care of her. James Geddis, found guilty-of robbing Evelina Morris, a visitor from Fiji, of jewellery and money, and of having assaulted her, received a sentence of. seven years hard labor, . /.Harold. Goss Anderson, who pleaded guilty to three'charges of false pretences, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Richard -John Yeoman, found guilty upon two charges of indecent assault and against whom seven other charges are pending, was remanded for sentence till Friday. SITTINGS AT WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON,. Nov. 22. In the Supreme Court to-day George Groves, alias Williamson, charged with forging , and uttering at Dannevirke, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. Prisoner had previously served sentences for a similar offence. Alfred Charles Warren, retried on a charge of child abduction,pleaded guilty to wrongfully detaining the child, stating that he did not know the law. He was order.ed to come up for sentence when called upon, i ■ SITTINGS AT CHRISTCHURCH. , CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 22. At the Supreme Court to-day Geo. Allen, who had'24 previous convictions against him since 1897 and who stated that.lie had never been before the Supreme Court until the present occasion, was found guilty on two counts of forgery, sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, and ordered to be dealt with as an habitual criminal, Llewellyn Price, who had pleaded guilty to forgery, was sentenced-to three years’ imprisonment, but was not declared an habitual criminal on account of bis youth. ' . . ' SITTINGS AT DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, Nov. 22. Tli© criminal sessions opened ,th|S morning. The calendar was very light John William Chadwick who pleaded guilty, received 12 mouths for forgery, to commence at the expiration of a sir niilar sentence for offences in Auckland and Wellington. William Brookes whas JacJkson was found guilty of acting upon a cheque, knowing it to have been forged.' Sentence was deferred. A charge of sheep-stealing preferred against William Johnson Ra© was not finished when tii© Court rose.