Case Name: VIRGINIA v. HOOFF
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1801-07
Citations: 28 F. Cas. 1224
Docket Number: 
Parties: VIRGINIA v. HOOFF.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 28
Pages: 1224–1224

Head Matter:
Case No. 16,962.
VIRGINIA v. HOOFF.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 21.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
July Term, 1801.
Criminal Law—Arrest of Judgment.
If the information upon a by-law state that the penalty accrued to the commonwealth, when, by charter, it accrued to the town, the judgment must be arrested.
Information [against Lawrence Hooff], for keeping a slaughter-house in the town of Alexandria, contrary to a by-law of the corporation.

Opinion:
THE COURT
arrested the judgment on the ground that the information stated that the penalty accrued to the commonwealth. By the act of incorporation of Alexandria, all penalties for breaches of by-laws were to be for the use of the town, and to be levied by distress and sale of the offender's goods.