Case Name: United States v. Robin Hood
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1817-04
Citations: 2 Cranch 133
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. Robin Hood.
Judges: (Thruston, J., absent,)
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 2
Pages: 133–133

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.