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

United States v. Voss.
    Upon an indictment for retailing spirituous liquors, the informer is not entitled to half of the penalty, and is a competent witness.
    The selling by the servant is the selling by the master.
    Indictment for retailing spirituous liquors. The defendant objected to the witness because, being the informer, he is entitled to half the penalty under the Act of Congress concerning the District of Columbia.
    
      Mr. Mason, for the United Stales.
    It does not appear that he is the informer, and by the laws of Maryland on which this indictment is founded, no part of the penalty accrued to the informer.
    The CouRT overruled the objection.
    
      Mr. Hewitt, for the defendant,
    prayed the Court to instruct the jury that the selling by the young man, was not the selling-by his master; the master not being answerable criminally for his acts.
   Instruction refused. The Court referred to the case of the United States v. Paxton, at December term, 1801, [ante, 44,] and United States v. Shuck, at January term, 1802, [ante, 56.]