ALLEGED GAMING HOUSE
As CASE OK APPEAL. His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman heard in the Supreme Court yesterday
i nn appeal by Robert Coleman ngaiiwt a conviction by Mr. L. (5. Hoid, S.M., in '< the Magistrate's Court in November for keeping a common gaming house. Mr.- JI. Myers appeared for the appel- | i lant and Mr. F. S. K. Macassey for tho Crown. i 'Mr. Macassev said that the appeal ircfe ! by way of rehearing, and stated that ; Coleman was charged that between Sep- . teinber 15 and November 1, at No. 6. Bintoul Street, Newtown, ho kept a common gaming house. The proceedings : were taken under'Section 1, sub-Section i, of the Gaming Act, 1908. Continuing, counsel said that tho facts in the caso i vroro that Coleman ostensibly carried on the business of a boot repairer at the premises mentioned, but it would be i shown that ho also carried on the business of a bookmaker, and that on the occasion when race meetings were hefng ; held in different parts of the Dominion continual strings of people were 6een going to and coming from his shop, but lie very rarely did any repairing work himself, and also thilt ho had a telephone connected with his premises which would be quite out of place for his ordinary ; business. The police arranged with a man to mako bets with Coleman on certain races.
Evidence similar to that tendered in the Lower Court was given by Detective Andrews, Constable Joss { and another man who made the bets.! For the defence Mr. Myers did not call any evidence, but contended that the [act that the circumstances, were suspicious
was not sufficient to hold appellant guilty of a criminal offence. There was no evidence of any bets, except those made with oue witness, but that evidence did not amount to keeping the premises as a gaming house. ! His Honour said that, he was satisfied that this was not a case of suspicion merely, but that there; was sufficient proof that appellant's' premises were habitually used as a common fjaming ! house. ! The appeal was dismissed.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 257, 18 July 1918, Page 6
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349ALLEGED GAMING HOUSE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 257, 18 July 1918, Page 6
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