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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 15,385.
    UNITED STATES v. HOOD.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 133.] 1
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    April Term, 1817.
    Gaming—Violation of Municipal Ordinance — Common Law Offence.
    A conviction of the offence of keeping a faro-bank, contrary to a by-law of the corporation of Alexandria, is nc bar to an indictment at common law for keeping a disorderly house, supported by the same evidence.
    Indictment [against Robin Hood], at common law, for keeping a disorderly house. The evidence was that he kept a faro-bank in a room at McLaughlin’s Tavern. It also appeared that he had been convicted and fined, by the mayor of Alexandria, under a- by-law of the corporation, for keeping the faro-bank.
    R. J. Taylor, for defendant,
    contended that that conviction was a bar to the present prosecution.
   But

THE COURT

(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)

decided that it was no bar. He offended against two laws. . The by-law could not repeal the general law- of the land. It is not the same offence.