Case Name: United States v. Shuck
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1802-01
Citations: 1 Cranch 56
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. Shuck.
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: 56–56

Head Matter:
United States v. Shuck.
An information may be amended.
A servant selling spirituous liquors for bis master is not personally liable for tbe penalty.
Information .for selling spirituous liquors, permitted to be amended, by inserting the date of' the offence, and also the words “ sold and to be drank at the circus, instead of at his own house.”
On the trial, the defendant attempted to prove that he acted as servant or agent of another person.

Opinion:
The Court
instructed the jury that if they should be of opinion, from the evidence, that the defendant acted as the servant of another person, and had no part of the profits, it was not to be considered as his selling, but that of his master. See ante, United States v. Paxton, (p. 44,) and post, United States v. Voss.