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Criminal Law-Aiding And Abeiting-Criminal Liablity For Knowingly Furnishing Racing Results To Bookmakers, John H. Blish
Criminal Law-Aiding And Abeiting-Criminal Liablity For Knowingly Furnishing Racing Results To Bookmakers, John H. Blish
Michigan Law Review
Appellant, who received a weekly salary for distributing horse-racing results by telephone to some twenty bookmakers, was convicted of aiding and abetting bookmaking activities in violation of section 986 of the New York Penal Law. He admitted knowing that the information would be used by his employer's customers in violation of section 986, but no actual evidence of bookmaking was presented to the court. On appeal, held, reversed, one judge dissenting. Knowingly transmitting racing results to bookmaking establishments by telephone does not, without proof of acceptance of bets on a professional basis, constitute aiding and abetting bookmaking in violation …
Search And Seizure - Suppression Of Evidence - Judicial Attitude Toward Enforcement, John B. Waite
Search And Seizure - Suppression Of Evidence - Judicial Attitude Toward Enforcement, John B. Waite
Michigan Law Review
The "numbers game" is today the most profitable of the wide-spread gambling rackets. And like all organized gambling it is a focal source and the financial support of far more serious crimes. At the same time it is one of the most difficult forms of crime for the police to control. It needs no costly installations which the police can confiscate or destroy. Unlike "house" gambling it cannot practically be harassed out of business. It can be operated by one man alone, if he survives failure to pay off for lack of capital; or by a syndicate with capital enough …
Evidence - Witnesses - Privilege Of Reporter Not To Testify Concerning Confidential Communications
Evidence - Witnesses - Privilege Of Reporter Not To Testify Concerning Confidential Communications
Michigan Law Review
Defendant, a newspaper reporter, refused to reveal to a grand jury which was investigating gambling and the lottery racket the names and addresses of persons and places mentioned in certain newspaper articles he had written on that subject, on the ground that the information was given to him confidentially and its source was therefore privileged. He was committed for contempt, and sued out a writ of habeas corpus. Held, writ dismissed. Mooney v. Sheriff, 269 N. Y. 291, 199 N. E. 415 (1936).