CW Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Hi ~ "were resumed yesterday, before ST. honour Mr Justice Martin. Mr a «rager appeared for the Crown. AN IXDECEXT ASSAULT CASE. cJri 6 ?•* °! Will iam Pollard Mote Hog- Snu=cT g With indecMlt a * ault ' w " eviden*" WWye^ c Pail ™ an » gaol surgeon, gave His Honour summed up. a v«J X - * 8^ ,rt the jury returned of "Guilty." ri *! lr , Stringer said 'accased had been con ten Ji m July last of vagrancy, and sen need to a month's imprisonment. He had been twice oonvicted of theft in January, thSv log seven SLad fourteen da y 6' res P ec - Addressing the prisoner, his Honour said u«e case was not one that called for the in- Juu m °, f the lash - The i ut 7 ha <* f °™d him «v ft u f meddli »g the child, and be woum be sentenced to twelve months' im- Pneonment, with hard labour. POCKKT-PICKING AT LYTTELTOW ■ John , Kelly and Robert Johnston wtre cnargwl with stealing at Lvttelton on £ovember Jst, from the person of Blanche Aorrw, the sum of £6 3s Mr Donn*Hy appeared for' Johnston, ft-elly was undefeated. Mr Stringer having opened the case for the Crown, called Blanche Norris, Maria «*y. iredwick Norris, Harriet Schneider. Jonathan Eanuhaw. William Hatherlev Caroline Wales, Constable George Hastfe, and .Sergeant Charlee Rutledge. 1 lie accused Kelly made a statement in his own behalf. M i J J : >nnell. v - for the defence of the ac- CUsed Johnston, called Martha Burrows, who said Ehe and Johnston, who were living to gether, came from Wellington by the Eoto manana the morning of the theft, and in company with her father—Mr Halliburton —went direct from the steamer to her lathers residence, Salt's Gully. Lvttelton. which they did not leave till 2 p.m., when they went up to Christchurch. They were never out of each other's company, and never on the railway platform that'morn- Mγ Donnelly also called Harold Clark, who deposed to seeing Johnston, Miss JRui. ST.' M r Halliburton goirg h(Jme tQ kk 8 lj iibout tl> - tim e as the robbery was taking place at the railway station. 