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

Case No. 16,191.
    UNITED STATES v. ROLLINSON.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 13.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1810.
    Criminal Daw—Evidence—Bawdt-House.
    On a prosecution for keeping a bawdy-house, the United States cannot give evidence of the general reputation of the house.
    Indictment [against Polly Rollinson] for keeping a bawdy-house.
    Mr. Jones, for the United States,
    asked the witness whether the house was generally reputed to be a house of ill-fame.
    E. J. Lee objected.
   THE COURT

(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)

decided that the question was improper.