Case Name: United States v. Lefevre
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1805-07
Citations: 1 Cranch 244
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. Lefevre.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 244–244

Head Matter:
United States v. Lefevre.
Under tlie Act of Assembly of Maryland, 1797, c. 110, the offence of keeping a faro-table can only he committed by a tavern-keeper or retailer of spirituous liquors.
Indictment for keeping a faro-table, at common law, and on the Act of Assembly of Maryland, 1797, c. 110.

Opinion:
The Court
was of opinion, that in order to bring the traverser within the Act of Assembly, he must be either a tavern-keeper, or a retailer of spirituous liquors, by being in the custom of selling liquors by retail, either with or without license.
Whereupon Mr. Jones gave up the count upon the statute.