SUCCESSFUL APPEAL.
GAMING CONVICTION^
BETTING BUSINESS NOT ; PROVE©.,
[BY TELEGBAPH.— PRESS AESOCUTI.W.f WELLINGTON-. Wednesday! One Dolling, tobacconist, of, Petona was convicted under the Gaming Act on a charge of, having used premises in his occupation as a gaming house, and he anpealed. ; Mr.. Justice Salmond ■ upheld th» appeal,, on. the ground that there . was no evidence; of bets with; any other person than a constable, "-who sought the defendant '- out and made a bet with him on two;occasions. The 1 Judge held that the 5 prosecution could not, , by proving one or two bets with a single individual, call upon th© defendant to rebut the mere suspicion that those bets might in truth '■>, have' been episodes in the conduct of ah,: established betting business conducted upon premises m violation of 'the ■Act.- ','''.■.'• : ;'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18455, 19 July 1923, Page 9
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