Case Name: United States v. Robert Gordon
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1802-04
Citations: 1 Cranch 81
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. Robert Gordon.
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: 81–81

Head Matter:
United States v. Robert Gordon.
Under the Act of Virginia prohibiting the sale of spirituous liquors without license, all the acts of selling before conviction constitute but one offence.

Opinion:
Indictment for retailing spirituous liquors. The judgment was arrested; because the indictment charged it as a second offence, before the defendant was convicted of a first; the Court being of opinion that all selling before conviction constituted but one offence.