Case ID: dc_2/html/0133-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. Robin Hood.
    A conviction of the offence of keeping a faro-hank contrary to a by-law of the corporation of Alexandria, is no bar to an indictment at common law for keeping a disorderly house, supported by the same evidence.
    Indictment, at common law, for keeping a disorderly house. The evidence was that he kept a faro-bank in a room at McLaughlin’s tavern. It also appeared that he had been convicted and fined, by the mayor of Alexandria, under a by-law of the corporation for keeping the faro-bank.
    
      Mr. R. J. Taylor, for the defendant,
    contended that that conviction was a bar to the present prosecution.
   But

the Court

(Thruston, J., absent,)

decided that it was no bar. He offended against two laws. The by-law could not repeal the general law of the land. It is not the same offence.