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

Case No. 14,688.
    UNITED STATES v. BURCH.
    [1 Cranch. C. C. 36.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    July Term, 1801.
    Disorderly House — Indictment — Time Laid— Former Conviction.
    1. The time laid in the indictment for keeping a disorderly bouse is not material.
    2. A convictici. is a bar to prosecution for all the time previous to the conviction.
   Indictment for keeping a disorderly house.

THE COURT

was of opinion that the time is not material if before the indictment found. The keeping of a disorderly house is a single offence, and one conviction is a bar to a prosecution for keeping a disorderly house at any time prior to the finding of the indictment