Read the full judgment text of CACC 000812/1977 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. On the 26th April of this year the appellant was convicted on a charge of keeping a common gaming house contrary to section 6 of the then Gambling Ordinance, and of receiving bets in a common gaming house contrary to section 7 of the same Ordinance. On the first count he was fined $2,000 and on the second count he was convicted and discharged. The evidence before the magistrate was that on the 16th of October last a police officer went into a restaurant and there he saw many people sitting ar