COMMENCING A LOTTERY
A CONVICTION AFFIRMED.
The judgment of his Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) in the appeal of Ah Gee against his conviction in the Magistrate's Court for having, on sth May, 1914, commenced a lottery, an offence for which he was fined £25, was delivered at the Supreme Court this afternoon. His Honour held that the act of Ah Gee in throwing away a quantity of lottery tickets and bolting from the police was consistent with the lottery having commenced, and therefore affirmed the conviction, and allowed £6* 6s costs. At the hearing of the apDeal, Mr C. P. Skerrett, K.C., with Mr. P. j! O'Regan, appeared for the appellant, and Mr. P. S. K. Macassey, of the Crown Law Office, for the Crown.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 146, 17 December 1915, Page 8
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128COMMENCING A LOTTERY Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 146, 17 December 1915, Page 8
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