SYY-GROG SELLING
CHARACTER OF INFORMER?. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Last Night. The question of the moans to be adopted by the police in the detection of-sly-grog selling was referred to i:r the Supreme Court to-day. In sum-ming-up in a caso of Alleged illieh traffic in liquor, Mr-Justice Williarr.s said it was perfectly well recognised that strategy had to be used -in-order to catch people at this business. It wa •• perfectly legitimate that strategy should be used because offenders could no be caught without it; nor ;oit:d it be expected that a person who acted as an informer roust necessarily be a very desirable .individual. In the present case the person to whom liquor was alleged to have been sold ■had been actuated in the matter, not by greed for money, but because he had a spite against the accused. That was an element which must be.takpn into consideration in deciding how far his evidence was credible.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10637, 16 May 1912, Page 5
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156SYY-GROG SELLING Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10637, 16 May 1912, Page 5
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