Opie v Goldfinch - [1947] NZLR 69

Licensing — Offences — Sale to Members of Unchartered Club — Aiding and Assisting in Commission of Offence — Club purchasing Liquor wholesale from Breweries and supplying it Retail to Members in Club-rooms — Secretary-Manager of Club buying Liquor from Breweries and Paying for it — No evidence of his being in Club Premises on Dates of Sales to Members or taking Active Part therein — Whether such Evidence necessary for conviction of Aiding and Assisting — Mens rea — Inference from Conduct — "Aid and assist" — Licensing Act, 1908, s 195 (2) (b) — Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, s 54.