Case Name: UNITED STATES v. MICKLE
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1805-12
Citations: 26 F. Cas. 1242
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. MICKLE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 26
Pages: 1242–1242

Head Matter:
Case No. 15,763.
UNITED STATES v. MICKLE.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 268.] 1
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Dec. Term, 1805.
Liquors—Retailer—What Constitutes.
The gratuitous distribution of ardent spirits at a public gaming-table does not constitute the keeper of the table a retailer of spirituous liquors, within the meaning of the get of assembly of Maryland.
Indictment. 1st count, at common law, for a nuisance, in keeping a public gaming-house. 2d. Under the act of assembly of Maryland, for keeping a faro-table, the defendant being a retailer of spirituous liquors.

Opinion:
THE COURT
said they had decided, in Ismenard's Case [Case No. 15,450], on the same indictment, that the distribution of spirituous liquors at the gaming-table, without receiving payment specifically therefor, was not a retailing of spirituous liquors within the meaning of the act.
Mr. Jones, for United States, gave up the 2d count.
Verdict, "Guilty on the 1st count"