THE LICENSING LAWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10587, 3 September 1896, Page 2

THE LICENSING LAWS.

(Pi« United Frrss Association.) CiiEiSTOHtiBOa, September 2. The appeal of Cecil Louisson, licensee of the Hereford Hotel, against his conrictioii before Hr H. W. Biahop, S.M., on a charge of having supplied intoxicating, liquor—namely, beer—to Henry Dmmaiond when the latter was in a etate of intoxication, was heard in the Supreme Court to-dsy before Mr Justice Denniston, who allowed thn appeal, on the ground that there was uo evidence before him that the liquor supplied 17113 an intoxicating liquor. A man who had accompanied Drammond to the bar o£ tbo hotel, and who had, it appeared from reports, stated in the Magistrate's Court that they had each bad a glass of beer, now said that he could not say what it wai that Drammond ba4 had. Hix Hoaor said he considered, thin witness's testimony unsatisfactory, but held himself bound by the evidence before him. He remarked that the present procedure of appealing on the facts was' absurd, r» it allowed a person'whose case had already besn heard before a competent magistrate s.n oppor- | tunity of having the matter re-tried before a different tribunal after the out for tbe other { side had been folly expossd. ' I