A QUESTION OF BETTING.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION. PALMERSTQN N., June 14. In the Supreme Court to-day Mr Justice Chapman upheld an appeal by the police against the decision in the recent bookmaking case against Matthew Connolly. The magistrate found that Connolly was a bookmaker, but dismissed the information on the ground that it wa» not proved that he committed the offence of betting as a bookmaker. In the course of an interesting judgment his Honor said it had been argued that the magistrate's decision found as a fact that no bet had been made after the respondent acquired his status as bookmaker. His Honor said he did not think the magistrate had found any such fact. He had expressed an opinion to that effect as a matter of law, with which his Honor was unable to agree. The magistrate had, however, found all the facts upon which a conviction ought to ensue, and for this reason the appeal must be allowed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3040, 19 June 1912, Page 56
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161A QUESTION OF BETTING. Otago Witness, Issue 3040, 19 June 1912, Page 56
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