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Case No. 15,523.
UNITED STATES v. KENNEDY.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 312.]1
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
June Term, 1806.
FORESTALLING MARKET—INDICTMENT.
An indictment will not lie for forestalling the Georgetown market contrary to the by-law.
Indictment [against M. Kennedy] for forestalling Georgetown market contrary to bylaw of Georgetown.
Verdict, guilty.
By the by-law, the penalty is ten dollars and to “be recoverable as in cases of small debts by warrant, one half to the clerk of the market; the other to the use of the corporation.”
Judgment arrested.
FITZHUGH, Circuit Judge, absent
1 [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
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