Case No. 14,535.

UNITED STATES v. BASCADORE.

[2 Cranch. C. C. 25.]¹

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

July Term, 1811.

CHEATING AT CARDS—FINE AND IMPRISONMENT.

Indictment for cheating at cards. Verdict, guilty. The jury assessed the fine at five times the value of the loss, viz., 37½ dollars.

THE COURT added six months imprisonment, under the acts of assembly of Virginia of December 8, 1702, § 9, and of December 1, 1789, § 2, pp. 47, 176.

¹ [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

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