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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
169 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 9
The following prisoners are awaiting their trial at the Circuit Court, to be held on Monday, in addition to those whose names have already been published. Bail cases are not included. William Mackie, horse-stealing; Maitland bench…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This Court opened, yesterday, before his honor Mr. Justice Milford. The Attorney General prosecuted for the Crown. The following barristers were present:—The Attorney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?]on for assault and battery and slander. The defendant had paid a sum of 40s. into court as sufficient to compensate for tho assault, and pleaded not guilty as to the [?]ander, which consisted of certain abusive terms conveying…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Page, who on Monday was convicted of an attempt to commit rape, was sentenced to two years hard labour on the roads. CHARGE OF STEALING A CHEQUE…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The trial of E. C. Madgwick, for perjury, was resumed. The case for the Crown closed on Thursday evening; but, on the application of Mr. Somerville, one more witness, Robert Handcool, was called…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The sentences passed upon three prisoners during previous days of the Circuit were altered by his Honor on looking through the calendar. John and William Mackie, who had been sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This was an action for malicious prosecution, in which James Stilsby was plaintiff, and Thomas Kerrigan defendant. The declaration stated that the defendant had appeared before a justice of the peace and falsely and maliciously stated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In this notion, William Nicholson waa plaintiff, and George Tully defendent. The declaration act forth that on the plaintiff purchasing a hay press from the defendant, the defendant had promised that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have re-printed, in the supplement to this number of the Mercury, the code of rules and forms for the District Courts, agreed to by the Judges of those courts, and published in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coroner, Mr. J. S. Parker, assembled a jury at the innisklllen Hotel, corner or King and Sussex streets this, morning, to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Giovenni Domenightini, an Italian, aged 24, who was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Edward Gray was indicted for frandulently and feloniously embezzling the sum of £16 11s. 6d., which he had received as the clerk to Mr. John Hughes. Guilty of larceny. One year's imprisonement with hard labour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mary Ann Perry was indicted for the murder of her husband, John Perry, at Burwood, on the 27th December. The trial occupied the whole of Tuesday and part of Wednesday. The prosecution was conducted by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The inquest on view of the body of Anne Glen, who, as reported in our issue of yesterday, was murdered by her husband on Saturdny night, was hold yesterday at the Waverley Tea Gardens Hotel, and resulted in a verdict of wilful murder. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a special case to determine a claim to toll. Mr. Darvall, Q.C., appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Broadhurst, Q.C., for the defendants. The plaintiffs, Messrs. James and Alexander Brown,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This was a motion for a new trial in an action for use and occupation, wherein the plaintiff had obtained a verdict with £60 damages. Mr. Martin, Q.C., appeared in support of the motion, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The first court under the new District Courts Act was held at Windsor on Monday and Tuesday, the 11th and 12th of this month, before Mr. Cary, the Judge of the Cumberland and Coast District…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In another column will be found the first official notice of the issue of summonses for a District Court, the East Maitland Court, in the northern district. The time allowed is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a motion to restrain two justices—Messrs. John Botiohor West and Daniel M'Intyre—by prohibition from enforcing an adjudication made by them at Armidale, under the Masters and Servants Act, 20th Victoria,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This was a motion for new trial in an action for trespass upon a depasturing station at Liverpool Plains, wherein the defendant had obtained a verdict. Mr. Martin, Q.C., Mr. Broadhurst, Q.C., Mr. Isaacs, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Chief Justice delivered the following, on Monday, in the Supreme Court, as the judgment of the Court, on the plaintiff's application for a new trial. The trial of this perplexing and long litigated cause…
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