NO EVIDENCE OF SALE
WIFE’S STATEMENTS KOI VALID PIT.LICAVS CONVICTION QUASHED. i I p;a; K.mtt.u Press Association.! INVERCARGILL, August 21. A decision of importance to hotel licensees was delivered by Air Justice Situ in the appeal of Robert AichLson, hotelkeeper, against conviction by Mr ('ruirkshank, S.M., lor having sold liquor after hours. The police found ' four men in the bar, with four bottles : and four empty glasses on the counter. Appellant was ill in bed, and his wife admitted that she had sold drink to the tour men. , . : ui s Honor held that the statements made bv the wife to the police were not evidence against the licensee, i There must ho evidence to prove a sale as defined by section 4 of the Licensing Act. REE. ' There was no evidence as , to the contents of the bottles nor as to A the recent contents of the glasses. 1 i The appeal was allowed and the cone \ viction set aside. - ' - '
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Evening Star, Issue 19025, 21 August 1925, Page 5
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160NO EVIDENCE OF SALE Evening Star, Issue 19025, 21 August 1925, Page 5
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