A BETTING CASE
~ ..... ■' '■-' AN1- INTERESTING DEFENCE. (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, M^n.n 9. An unusual oof* nee to charges wilder the Gaming Vn was advanced in the Magistrate's Cocrc to~dav by counsel uefending Roy Jury and Thomas Heilier, l>oth of Waitara* charged with having kept common gaming-houses and accept- | ed moneys for bets on racehorses. The j i cases were adjourned from Waitara last week, when the evidence of the constable who had made bets with Heilier was i taken, and race-cards and betting-books found on the premises of both the accused produced subject to formal objec- | tion by counsel. To-day, counsel for the defence urged that the cards and books found on tho accused were inadmissible as evidence, as not instruments of gaming under the Gaming Act, and thereforethe police were not empowered to seize them under their warrant. The police were, he said, empowered after an-pst in all oases to seize all incriminating documents in the case. Cards and books were seized prior to arrest. He quoted oases to shoAv that the definition of in- : struments in gaming did not include race i cards and books. He contended that betting houseswwe e included tinder the definition of gaming house, and therefore instruments of gaming included , instruments of betting. Decision was reserved.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20027, 10 March 1914, Page 5
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213A BETTING CASE Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20027, 10 March 1914, Page 5
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