Case No. 16,123.

UNITED STATES v. RAWLINSON.

[1 Cranch, C. C. 83.]¹

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

April Term, 1802.

INDICTMENT—NAME OF PROSECUTOR.

The name of a prosecutor must be indorsed on an indictment for keeping a bawdy-house.

Indictment [against Mary Rawlinson] for keeping a bawdy-house. It was questioned by the attorney for the United States, whether the name of Asa Hill, being a voluntary witness to the grand jury, ought not to be written at the foot of the indictment as a prosecutor, before it should be sent up to the grand jury.

THE COURT were of opinion that his name ought to be so written, but gave no direction.

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

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