BOOKMAKING CHARGES
COMMENTS BY JUDGE TRIAL BY JURY NOT FAVOURED [by TELF.GHArH OWN CORRESPONDENT] XEW PLYMOUTH, Saturday "Personally, I do not think charges of bookmaking should be tried by juries because too big a strain is placed on them," said Mr. Justice Reed, in summing up at the end of a bookmaking case in the Supreme Court. The Judge said that these cases were important, because of the danger of people losing reverence for the law if verdict after verdict of not guilty were returned. Most people had a small bet these days and in small places, and there was a likelihood that even some of the jurymen had made bets with bookmakers. After pointing out the duty of jurymen to decide the case strictly in accordance with their oath, even though thev might not agree with the law, His Honor said there were many features of the Gaming Act that might be open to objection. He considered that the act of a juryman in disregarding his oath when trying such cases was actually a worse offence than that of bookmaking.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21503, 29 May 1933, Page 11
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