SUPREME COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIII, Issue 13712, 1 April 1905, Page 7

SUPREME COURT.

[Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, March 31. The foil Supreme Court, delivered judgment in the case IloiildsWorth v. Pair hall, in which the landlord of a Newtown hotel had been convicted of selling drink to one Rontll when ho was intoxicated, and the conviction was quashed on the grounds that the nian who was “shouting” for Eouth was his entertainer, not his agent for the purpose of buying drink for him. The Court remarked On the fact that there had been no prosecution oil the other charges on which a conviction could have been obtained, and that there was a miscarriage of justice, yet they must uphold the law.