Case No. 14,683.

UNITED STATES v. BURCH.

[1 Cranch. C. C. 36.]¹

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

July Term, 1801.

DISORDERLY HOUSE—INDICTMENT—TIME LAID—FORMER CONVICTION.

1. The time laid in the indictment for keeping a disorderly house is not material.

2. A conviction is a bar to prosecution for all the time previous to the conviction.

Indictment for keeping a disorderly house.

THE COURT was of opinion that the time is not material if before the indictment found. The keeping of a disorderly house is a single offence, and one conviction is a bar to a prosecution for keeping a disorderly house at any time prior to the finding of the indictment.

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

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