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

Case No. 15,763.
    UNITED STATES v. MICKLE.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 268.] 1
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1805.
    Liquors—Retailer—What Constitutes.
    The gratuitous distribution of ardent spirits at a public gaming-table does not constitute the keeper of the table a retailer of spirituous liquors, within the meaning of the get of assembly of Maryland.
    Indictment. 1st count, at common law, for a nuisance, in keeping a public gaming-house. 2d. Under the act of assembly of Maryland, for keeping a faro-table, the defendant being a retailer of spirituous liquors.
   THE COURT

said they had decided, in Ismenard’s Case [Case No. 15,450], on the same indictment, that the distribution of spirituous liquors at the gaming-table, without receiving payment specifically therefor, was not a retailing of spirituous liquors within the meaning of the act.

Mr. Jones, for United States, gave up the 2d count.

Verdict, “Guilty on the 1st count”