BOOKMAKING AIDED
DELIVERY OF A LETTER BUS DRIVER FINED £lO According to a reserved judgment delivered by Mr J. Miller, S.M., at Waipawa, persons deemed to be knowingly acting as agents between investors and bookmakers are liable to conviction for aiding in the commission of bookmakiirg. The case was one in which Brian Joseph Cameron, a bus driver, aged 23, was charged with aiding in the commission of bookmaking. He pleaded not guilty. It was stated for the prosecution that Cameron, who drove a bus from the Pukeora Sanatorium to Waipukurau, had on April 14 delivered a sealed envelope to a billiard saloon proprietor. The envelope contained a £5 note and instructions as to how it was to be invested on a racehorse.
The magistrate held that the defendant had knowledge that he was assisting in the commission of an offence and entered a conviction. Counsel said that the defendant was not a racing man and had no conception that he was doing wrong. “There has never been a prosecution of this kind before,” counsel added, “ and but for the defendant’s statement to the police there could not have been a conviction.”
The magistrate fined the defendant £lO. Security for appeal was fixed at £2O.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25866, 9 June 1945, Page 8
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