General

United States v. Lefevre

1 D.C. 2441 Cranch 244·United States District Court for the District of Columbia·1805

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Opinion

United States v. Lefevre. Under tlie Act of Assembly of Maryland, 1797, c. 110, the offence of keeping a faro-table can only he 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. [MAJORITY — The Court] 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.