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

Case Ho. 16,199.
    UNITED STATES v. ROUNSAVEL.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 133.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    April Term, 1817.
    Gaming—Information.
    An information will not lie upon a presentment of a grand jury for public gambling, contrary to the Virginia statute of December 8, 1792 (chapter 96, § 5, p. 175).
    Buie to show cause why an information should not be filed upon the presentment of the grand jury for playing at vingt et un at a tavern, contrary to the act of assembly.
    
      
       [Beported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief -Judge.]
    
   BY THE COURT.

The statute has prescribed the mode of prosecution, and no other can be sustained. See U. S. v. Willis [Case No. 16,728], at November term, 1808, and U. S. v. Simms (in supreme court of the United States) 1 Cranch [5 U. S.] 252.

Rule discharged.