TRIAL BY JURY.
FAILS IN GAMING PROSECUTIONS
Bv Telegraph. Press Association. WELLINGTON.. This Day. - In the course of his! annual report Parliament, the Commissioner of Police, in recording 245 prosecutions and 194 convictions under the Gaming Act says till the provision in the Gaming Act giving persons charged with being bookmakers the right of trial by jury is repealed it is almost a waste of time to prosecute. During the year the police succeeded in obtaining clear evidence of hookmaking in several cases, prosecutions were instituted, and accused persons were committed for trial, but in all but one case, in which it is alleged there was some local feeling againat bookmakers, the juries either disagreed or. acquitted in the face of very plain, directions from the presiding judges. Finding that convictions could not be obtained under the 1920 Act the police had to fall, back' upon the 1908: Act, and prosecute for keeping comr mon gaming houses. This had beendone with considerable success.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1279, 10 August 1922, Page 5
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