Case Name: UNITED STATES v. CONNER
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1802-12
Citations: 25 F. Cas. 595
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. CONNER.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 25
Pages: 595–595

Head Matter:
Case No. 14,846.
UNITED STATES v. CONNER.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 102.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Dec. Term, 1802.
Gaming—Owner op Table—Who may be Indicted.
1. Upon an indictment for keeping a gaming-table in a booth upon a race-field, contrary to the act of Maryland, it is not necessary to prove that the traverser was the owner.
2. He is equally guilty, whether he acted as principal, or agent, or servant of the owner.
Indictment for keeping a gaming-table, to game with dice, at a booth, on the race-field, contrary to an act of assembly of Maryland.
[Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

Opinion:
THE COU.RT
instructed the jury that it was not necessary for the United States to prove that the traverser was the owner of the table, if he played at it as owner, and' appeared to be the person who set it up. And that it was of no importance whether the traverser acted as principal or as agent or servant for the owner of the table. In each case he was equally guilty.
Quaere. See U. S. v. Voss [Case No. 16,828], and the cases there referred to.