EUCHRE TOURNAMENT CASE
CONVICTION AND DISCHARGE. DEFENDANT TO PAY COSTS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTCHURCK. Tuesday. When William Alfred Bitten appeared in Court for sentence on a charge that on October 17, having the use of premises known as the Sydenham Football Hall, he used them as a common gaming house, Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., said: "I have not the slightest intention of penalising defendant, except that he will have to pay £l3, the amount of the Supreme Court costs." Defendant was convicted and discharged. The defendant appeared as the result of a successful appeal to the Supreme Court by the Crown against the dismissal by the "magistrate of the charge against him, Mr. Justice Adams held that euchre tournaments constituted a game of chance and were therefore illegal. The magistrate remarked, in reply to Mr. Sargent for the defendant, that the Supreme Court was well able to secure its own costs. In some few cases the costs of the higher Court were ordered in the lower Court. Defendant would be convicted and discharged. Mr. Sargent: He is convicted without penalty, then ? The Magistrate: Yes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19889, 7 March 1928, Page 14
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