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

Case No. 15,180.
    UNITED STATES v. GADSBY.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 55.]
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Jan. Term, 1802.
    Indictment—Gaming.
    An indictment will not lie under the Virginia act, for suffering gaming in the defendant’s house; because the act has given an action of debt to the informer.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   Indictment for suffering gaming in his public inn, contrary to Act Va., Jan. 19, 1798, c. 2, § 3. This indictment was quashed, upon the same ground upon which the court instructed the jury in the case of U. S. v. Simms [Case No. 16,290]. See that case in the supreme court of the United States, in 1 Cranch [5 U. S.] 252