SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2736, 15 February 1910, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

SITTINGS AT PALMERSTON NORTH.

TPeh Phess Association.j PALMERSTON N.. Feb. 14

In the Supreme Court to-day Frederick Gillett was sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labor on two counts of indecent assault on. two girls aged 9 and 10 respectively. Jas. Choat charged with a similar offence on a girl of six, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labor. At the Supreme Court to-day Claude Rotter was found not guilty of assault and robber}', and pleaded guilty to perjury. He will be sentenced to-mor-row. Charles Camion and Walter Riley were found guilty to receiving stolen property, and the latter of theft-. Sentence was "deferred till to-morrow.

SITTINGS AT DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, Feb. 14. No evidence was offered against Ernest Burgess, Edward Pyle, and John Healey for alleged robbery with violence, the prosecutor having left the Dominion. John Jones was sentenced to six months imprisonment for theft.

At the Supreme Court to-day Francis Patton Philip was convicted on a charge of stealing a mare, the property of Christopher Dagg, Queenstown, and a saddle and bridle, the property of Albert Sellars. Sentence was deferred. Oswald Sydney Graham, aged 16 years, pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and . entering a dwelling at North-East Valley and stealing a silver watch and 5s in' money. He was convicted, and ordered, to come up for sentence when called on. the understanding being that he be placted under the control of Air. Gumming, agent for the Patients’ and Prisoners’ Aid Society. Alexander McLennan pleaded not guilty to a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond in that lie had insufficient lawful means of support. After four lioill's’ retirement the jury failed to agree, and the accused’ was remanded until to-morrow. George Thomas Buckley was convicted on a charge of carnally knowing a girl between the. age of 12 and 16, but the jury added a- strong recommendation to 'mercy. Sentence was deferred.