A man accused of stabbing a woman last year will go on trial next month.

Justis Smith, 23, of Sunset Mews, Pembroke is accused of causing bodily harm to a woman and possession of a knife in February 2002 outside Showtime Night club in Dockyard.

Smith was up for mention in Supreme Court last week and his court date was set for August 11.

He is being represented by Elizabeth Christopher and the proceedings will be before Assistant Justice Archibald Warner.

A woman claimed in Magistrates' Court last Thursday that she was “just playing around” when she walked out of a Front Street store wearing a hat she had not paid for.

Roydell Stovell, 45, of no fixed residence, admitted walking out of Makin' Waves on Wednesday night with the blue baseball cap still on her head.

Crown counsel Shakira Dill said store owner Stuart Joblin stopped the woman and when Police arrived they noticed that the security tag and price tag were still on the hat that Stovell was wearing.

When taken to Police headquarters Stovell could not produce a receipt for the hat and admitted she was trying to steal it.

But in court she told Acting Senior Magistrate William Francis that, “she just wanted to try it” and “was just playing around”.

Mr. Francis sent Stovell to jail for six weeks.

Stovell asked where she was going and Mr. Francis replied: “Whatever jail they want to take you to.”

An 18-year-old convicted of breaking and entering was sent to Westgate pending the completion of a social inquiry report.

Devon Smith pleaded guilty last week to breaking into the office of the Government Tennis Stadium in Pembroke.

Smith admitted that at around 7 p.m. last Sunday he had climbed through a bathroom window at the office and was caught attempting to force the lock to the office's store room.

According to the complainant, who is an employee at the Tennis Stadium, Smith approached him as he was locking up the office, and asked the complainant to use the office bathroom. While in the bathroom Smith opened the bathroom window, planning to allow himself back in later.

Smith emerged from the bathroom and exited the office with the complainant who then locked the office.

But not long after the office was locked up, a player on the courts noticed Smith climbing into the bathroom window.

Alerted of the break-in, the complainant, accompanied by Police, returned to the office and found Smith in the attempting to force his way into a store room, causing $250 worth of damage to the door.

When discovered he quickly admitted that he had been looking for money.

Ordering a social inquiry report in the matter, acting Senior Magistrate Will Francis said that Smith's young age and ready admittance of guilt was consideration in his sentencing. Smith's report is scheduled to be completed by mid-August.

A man who was caught driving with three times over the legal limit will spend the next three years off the road.

And Acting Senior Magistrate William Francis fined Jose Dos Santos, 47, of Middle Road, Southampton $3,000 after hearing that he had only completed a driving ban for driving while impaired two months before he was caught.

The court heard that Dos Santos was in a road traffic accident with another vehicle on June 16 on Burnaby Hill.

Police noticed that Dos Santos was unsteady and his eyes appeared glazed and asked him if he had been drinking.

Dos Santos, who appeared in court with an interpreter, told them he had had two Bacardi and Cokes.

Mr. Francis was told a breathalyser test showed Dos Santos' had 245 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrams.