GAMING ACT CASE.
ttNUStJAL LINE OP DEFENCE. (By fele»r--"-'i -Brw-s. '-.AssofJatiifii.)•.;, ■ New't'lyinbutlr, March <J. An unusual defence to charges wmkr the GarnHijg Act-was advanced in.tto Magistrate's Court to-day by eounscl for defendants, So,y 'Jury aitd Thomas Hellier, bath of Waiters,"were charged with having kept a- common gamiug house and accepted moneys for bet-s on racehorses. Tho cases, woro adjourned from Waitara last wcck.VlHsu the- evidence of the constable who had nwdo tlio "bets with HeHier was taken, and the raeo-eards a.ud hotting books found on the premises prodtteed subject to formal objection by counsel. *
To-day counsel %•• the defence urged that the cards and bowks found vyews mnitaiissable as evidence, as they were not instruments of gaming raider the Gaining Act, ant? tfjewfoie tho policewore act empowered to seifco them. Under tlioir warrant the police were, lie said, empowered after an arrest i)i all eases to seize anv incriminating documents, but, hi this case, the cards and tanks vw seized prior to the arrest. Ho quoted cases , to show that tlta deihiition of "instruments of gaming" Aid not include race*ards and books.
Tho police coiltecuicd that a Ijottiug h oil so was included tmtfcr the definition of "gaming house," and therefore the instriTiiipnts of gaming 'included instruments of hotting. Decision was reserved.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2004, 11 March 1914, Page 8
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211GAMING ACT CASE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2004, 11 March 1914, Page 8
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