Case ID: f-cas_27/html/0069-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 15,853.
    UNITED STATES v. NAILOR.
    [4 Cranch, C. C. 372.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1833.
    Criminal Evidence—Keeping House op III Fame.
    Upon an indictment for keeping a house of ill fame, evidence of the ill fame of the defendant herself, cannot be given.
    Indictment [against Priscy Nailor] for keeping a house of ill fame, &c.
   THE COURT,

(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent,)

on the authority of the case of U. S. v. Jourdine [Case No. 15,499], refused to permit the United States to give evidence of the ill fame of the defendant herself.

Verdict, “Not guilty.”