SWEEPSTAKE MONEY
RECEIVING ADMITTED
INTERESTING LEGAL POINT
(By Telegraph.—Tress Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
A prosecution of wide interest commenced in the Police Court this morning, when V. S. Jacobs, W. Stiglich, W. F. Elliott, and Walter H. Maloney, tobacconists, were each charged with receiving 6s from a constable for a ticket in Tattersall's sweep. There were similar charges against three assistants. The receiving of the money was admitted.
The defence was that it was,no offence to receive money for a ticket in a lottery outside New Zealand, assuming that the prosecution succeeded in proving it to be a foreign lottery; also that the defendants were merely buyers' agents for transmission to Hobart, their part in the transaction not constituting a sale.
Counsel pointed out that there was a decision at Dunedin in 1913 that the section did not refer to lotteries other than in New Zealand. There had been no appeal fromthat, and Jacobs all along had believed that was the law.
Decision was reserved,
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 86, 11 April 1935, Page 11
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