Case No. 15,591.

UNITED STATES v. LEFEVRE.

[1 Cranch, C. C. 244.]¹

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

July Term, 1805.

KEEPING A FARO TABLE.

Under the act of assembly of Maryland, 1797, c. 110, the offence of keeping a faro table can only be committed by a tavern keeper or retailer of spirituous liquors.

Indictment for keeping a faro table, at common law, and on the act of assembly of Maryland, 1797, c. 110.

THE COURT was of opinion, that in order to bring the traverser within the act of assembly, he must be either a tavern keeper, or a retailer of spirituous liquors, by being in the custom of selling liquors by retail, either with or without license.

Whereupon Mr. Jones gave up the count upon the statute.

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

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