ARRESTED IN HOTEL
AFTER-HOURS VISITORS MUST PROVE INNOCENCE ONUS NOT ON POLICE (Special to THE SUN) WANGANUI, Thursday. “If a man goes into a public house after hours with any intention of getting liquor, he commits an offence against the law. When he is found on the premises he is guilty unless he can satisfy the Court that he was there for some reason other than that of getting liquor.” This ruling was laid down by Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., at Manaia to-day, when five men were charged with being on the premises o£ the Waimate Hotel after hours. Three of them, C. W. Looney, Martin Gedge and A. J. Hughes, pleaded that they went to the hotel to hear the Sydney races on the wireless, and the Magistrate accepted the plea, dismissing the charges. The two other men, David Gulliver and Allau Hughes, who slipped in by the back door while Constable Scannell was arresting the other three, were convicted and fined £l, with 10s costs. “When a man is charged with an offence,” continued the magistrate, “it is necessary for the police to prove it up to the hilt, but in this case ‘t is for the accused to satisfy the Court.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 315, 28 March 1928, Page 1
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