Case Name: UNITED STATES v. RAWLINSON
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1802-04
Citations: 27 F. Cas. 715
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. RAWLINSON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 27
Pages: 715–715

Head Matter:
Case No. 16,123.
UNITED STATES v. RAWLINSON.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 83.] 1
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
April Term, 1802.
Indictment—Name op Prosecutor.
The name of a prosecutor must be indorsed on an indictment for keeping a bawdy-house.
Indictment [against Mary Rawlinson] for keeping a bawdy-house. It was questioned by the attorney for the United States, whether the name of Asa Hill, being a voluntary witness to the grand jury, ought not to be written at the foot of the indictment as a prosecutor, before it should he sent up to the grand jury.

Opinion:
THE COURT
were of opinion that his name ought to be so written, hut gave no direction.