THE THREE CARD GAME AS ONE OF SKILL.
William Watson, a person who had been sentenced to 14 days imprisonment for playing a game of chance known as the three-card trick, on the Flemington racecourse, appealed against the sentence, and Mr Daly, who appeared for him, raised the point that the three-card game was one of skill and not of chance. The chairman held that the conviction was bad. He therefore quashed it, and did the same with two other similar cases, in which the appellants, Charles Carter and Isidore Perlstein, had received short sentences of imprisonment for the same offence.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1250, 18 January 1883, Page 2
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101THE THREE CARD GAME AS ONE OF SKILL. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1250, 18 January 1883, Page 2
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