KEEPING OF LIQUOR
THIRD CHARGE AGAINST MULLINS DISMISSED BY MAGISTRATE. The charge of keeping liquor for sale on June 12, preferred against J. C. Mullins, was dismissed by Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., when he delivered his reserved judgment to-day. Last Court day three charges were preferred against the defendant; on one of selling liqour on June 12 he was fined £SO; on another of keeping liquor for sale on June 15 he was fined £25; and on a charge of keeping liquor for sale on June 12 Mr. Levien reserved his decision. Evidence was given by the police that, though on June 12 their agent succeeded in purchasing a bottle of whisky from defendant, a search did not result in the finding of any liquor other than a half bottle of whisky produced by him. On June 15, however, a thorough search ended when they discovered whisky to the value of £l6 11s 6d under a loose floor-board. For the defendant Mr. Johnson, referring to the first visit by the police to defendant’s boarding-house, said that the fact that liquor was sold did not necessarily mean that it was kept for sale. Later he admitted that the liquor found under the loose floorboard on June 15 was there on June 12, but he claimed immunity for this admission.
Mr. Levien reserved his judgment on this point until to-day.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4876, 28 July 1936, Page 4
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