Case Name: UNITED STATES v. HOOD
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1817-04
Citations: 26 F. Cas. 369
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. HOOD.
Judges: (THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 26
Pages: 369–369

Head Matter:
Case No. 15,385.
UNITED STATES v. HOOD.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 133.] 1
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
April Term, 1817.
Gaming—Violation of Municipal Ordinance — Common Law Offence.
A conviction of the offence of keeping a faro-bank, contrary to a by-law of the corporation of Alexandria, is nc bar to an indictment at common law for keeping a disorderly house, supported by the same evidence.
Indictment [against Robin Hood], 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.
R. J. Taylor, for defendant,
contended that that conviction was a bar to the present prosecution.

Opinion:
But
THE COURT
(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, 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.