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Case No. 16,093.
    UNITED STATES v. PROUT.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 203.] 1
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1804.
    N OISANCE—Disorderly Hoose.
    The selling of spirituous liquors to negroes, in a public manner, assembled in considerable numbers, and suffering them to drink the same in and about the house on the Sabbath, constitutes it a disorderly house.
    [Cited in State v. Crawford, 28 Kan. 733.]
    [This was an indictment against W. Prout.]
   THE COURT,

in answer to a question from the jury, instructed them that, the selling of spirituous liquors to negroes in a public manner, assembled in considerable numbers, and suffering them to drink the same in and about the house on the Sabbath, constitutes it a disorderly house. Verdict for United States.

The defendant had not an ordinary license. Fined $100.