Case Name: United States v. Mickle
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1805-12
Citations: 1 Cranch 268
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. Mickle.
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: 268–268

Head Matter:
United States v. Mickle.
The gratuitous distribution of ardent spirits at a public gaming-table does not constitute the keeper of the table a retailer of spirituous liquors, within the meaning of the Act of Assembly of Maryland.
Indictment. 1st count, at common law, for a nuisance, in keeping a public gaming-house. 2d. Under the Act of Assembly of Maryland, for keeping a faro-table, the defendant being a retailer of spirituous liquors.
Mr. Jones, for United States,
gave up the 2d count.

Opinion:
The Court
said they had decided, in Ismenard's case, on the same indictment, that the distribution of spirituous liquors at the gaming-table, without receiving payment specifically therefor, was not a retailing of spirituous liquors within the meaning of the act.
Verdict guilty on the 1st count.