Case Name: UNITED STATES v. LEFEVRE
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1805-07
Citations: 26 F. Cas. 915
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. LEFEVRE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 26
Pages: 915–915

Head Matter:
Case No. 15,591.
UNITED STATES v. LEFEVRE.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 244.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
July Term, 1805.
Keeping a Faro Table.
Under the act of assembly of Maryland, 1797. c. 110, the offence of keeping a faro table can only be committed by a tavern keeper or retailor of spirituous liquors.
Indictment for keeping a faro table, at common law, and on the act of assembly of Maryland, 1797, c. 110.
[Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief .1 mlge.]

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.