CONCERNING CREDIT BETTING.

NZ Truth, Issue 771, 14 August 1920, Page 7

CONCERNING CREDIT BETTING.

Does It Dodge the Act?

At a recent trial at Edinburgh, Scotland, the presiding judge held that it was no offence m law to use a place for the purposes of betting, provided that for bets made on the premises no cash passed before the race or event was decided. In dismissing the charge the judge said: "That the evidence showed that clients of the accused made no deposit, at their premises or when the bets were made, or before the sporting event had been determined, and that the accused paid the winnings to their clients without any payment being made by the clients, and trusted to then", clients' honor to pay their losses. Consequently the premises were not kept open or used for the purpose of money being received as a consideration for an undertaking to pay thereafter money on events or contingencies of or relating to horse races and football matches. The Public Prosecutor appealed against the finding, but. the Justiciary Court upheld the Sheriff, and dismissed the appeal. The Lord Justice Clerk said the question had been decided •In a former case which had affirmed that credit betting wa"s not struck at by the Betting Act. Lords Dundas and Salvesen concurred."