giving judgment on July Judge Wu explained that the official judgment would arrive at counsel's offices with in the next few days. and that another copy would be given to the Chief Clerk of the Provisional Court where it would be kept on file in accordance with Chinese law, This official judgment was not fully prepared and what he would rend in passing judgment, he characterized as a skeleton judg~ ment bearing the essential points of the official judgment. On this skeleton judgment he asked par~ ticularly not to be criticized and that any criticism should be based fon the official judgment which would be made public shortly.
Judge Wu said that in arriving at his findings he was guided on three main points: (1) Did Garcia supply the house at 151¢ Bubbling Well Road for gambling from August 1, to October 17, 1928? (2) Did. Garcia remain in close connection with the house after October 18, 1928, when he transferred the lease to del Valle? and (2) Did del Valle: supply the house for gambling after October 18 to the time of their arrest?
He would first take the case of del Valle who had acknowledged the lease of the house from October 18, and had admitted that from ime to the time of his arrest "wwheols" were running there each night, that they were presided over by bankers under his employ and that with each spin of the wheels there was a profit to the house, He stated that a confession alone was not sufficient evidence to warrant a conviction, but he could not help believing in view of the evidence presented by the police that del Valle had conducted a public gambling house, He held further that the house was open to the public by del Valle's admission that a calling card was sufficient to gain entry. The contention of the defences that roulette was not gambling under Chiness law because it was not named in the-Criminal Code' he dismissed as defence at all
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