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BETTING DECISION IN CANADA Toronto Out January 4 In the case of the Crown against Ellis the Court of Appeals quashed a magistrates conviction The defendant Arthur Ellis jicknowlodged when charged before Magistra Dclilson that he earned his living partly by bcttin but as be did not carry on the business in any lixed place the police charged him with vagrancy and lie was convicted under the section of th code dealing with people who live from the earnings of prosti ¬ tutes gaming and other disreputable means His conviction was attacked on the ground that betting kr t c is not a crime and that the section of the code relied on did not apply A stated case was submitted by the magistrate as to whether he prop ¬ erly ouvIri il under the section The court answered Jii the negative and quashed the conviction
