SUPPLYING CIGARETTES TO A BOY
—: * ■■ — . IOU'OIi.TANT. 'JUDGMENT.
A reserved judgment .■ delivered in: the Magistrate's Court, yesterday morning by Mr. ,T. R. Evan.?, S.M., will prove of con-, s.vlerablo imim'cst to tobacconists.. East week; the police proceeded against Mins .Tasie 'T'oat, R. AV. Arroit. V. H. Hoare <vml AV. Wilson., for''supplying eignrnttes to a' .'lioy "tinder 15 years'of ogc. Tho Intl.' Who wiis' employed as a message, boy iii a 'tailoring establishment, was sent lo ArniitV.tr Honre and AVilson for fhi> cigarettes. At tpie hearing, Mr." O. : Mnzeiigarb, who appeared for the defendants, objected to; the parties being -jointly charged, land also liiieit'oned whether cerlai'n statements made by ;who sent the. boy were evidence against the other defendants.
His Worship said i.ho case was built ud partly on the admissions mndo by seven. employees of the tailoring establishment. that it. had'been thpt practicfl among l|hem to send tho hoy,for cigarette? ami 'tobacco, and partly on n statement inade ! l>v Miss Feat, tho shopassistant,, ''that she had 'been 'in v the hnb.it of supplyf'ng; the men through j.di's particular'message lioy. The Magistrate, held that there was iio offence in sending .the boy for- cigarettes, as the section' Under which the information was laid-wits aimed'at the supplying of cigarettes to a boy for his own use. There Was no'l' sufficient; evidence to support 'tlio charge that'either Armit' or his'assistant'.supplied the bnv on the dato nwnt'ioned in the information; and eveii . liad there been sufficient evidence Hie case would 1 have'lieeir meti by the proving that the cigarettes were sumilied to-(he hov as a messenger hoy. •, The judifinent' in effect estab-. lishes 'the right 'of any person to send A : boy for cigarettes', :and relieves She vendor of "l'abrllity for serving the bov so sent if lul can prove that the' article's worn intended for consumption by 'Brother person. The 'infornwt'on was dismissed.' ' ■
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 287, 28 August 1920, Page 7
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309SUPPLYING CIGARETTES TO A BOY Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 287, 28 August 1920, Page 7
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