Case Name: United States v. Rounsavel
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1817-04
Citations: 2 Cranch 133
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. Rounsavel.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 2
Pages: 133–134

Head Matter:
United States v. Rounsavel.
An information will not lie upon a presentment of a grand jury for public gambling contrary to the Virginia Statute of 8th December, 1792, c. 96, § 5, p. 175.
Rule to show cause why an information should not be filed upon the presentment of the grand jury for playing at vingt un at a tavern, contrary to the Act of Assembly.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The statute has prescribed the mode of prosecution, and no other can be sustained. See United States v. Willis, at November term, 1808, (1 Cranch, C. C. 511,) and United States v. Simms, in Supreme Court of the United States, 1 Cranch, 252.
Rule discharged.