DRAW-POKER

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 27, 31 July 1912, Page 8

DRAW-POKER

„ , , 'A RESERVED JUDGMENT. 'AS reserved judgment was delivered by , Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., at the MagisHrate's Court this morning, in the case in I -which Sidney Palmer, billiard-paloon-!/keeper, was charged with keeping a coiurxoon garnin f,- house during- May and June bflaet. At the hearing of tho case at th« f»«nd of June, Mr. A. L. Herdman apjj.peared.for accused, and held that the in-L-iormation musk hu di&missed on law .(^points. He contended that it had not ! 'been proved that Palmer's was a comi .in on gaming house, and that there was no j proof that the defendant kepi auch a J'QQUpe, -within the meaning of the statuiea. . In the judgment delivered to-day, his i "Worship stated that defendant had a room Hn his private house, No. 22, Marion"Ststreet. • This room was fitted up as a ~«ard and smoke-room, and Palmer aver..red that oince last Christmas he had in,vited Bdmo of his more intimate friends customers, on Saturday and Sunday ■evenings, to have a game of cards. He seated that those persons -who' V+'ttiae to the house on Saturday evenings 'after 10.30 o'clock, ihe hour at ritohicb his billiard-saloon -was closed. On Sjihe night of 2nd June, there is evidence f cards jarere placed ,in the same room "t-tb a. late JjOtJjT. On other occasions the ihinS"" occurred,.,' according to evi'^leuce. th© defending counsel's '^onteaiion that draw-poker waa not an allegul ganie, hia Worship stated tha-t he ,- was satisfied, that there was v cousider--vnbly greater plemenfc of chance iv it than 4-skill. Tho fact that defendant used his . -ioUBo also aa a private residence -was oi '♦■*io importance, for it was immaterial that C the principal use of a house was for a. object if in fact it was also /' "iisptl for the prohibited purpose. _ Defend•■'kiar. therefore, rrju*t b» convicted and ■J. Sn^tl . £Z~ with «mrfc* votta ' It, ' in def ault' seven U^i-a 1 inapjisviimeiit;, • l '