United States v. Simms
Supreme Court of the United States
Error from the circuit court of the district of Columbia, sitting at Alexandria, to reverse a judgment rendered by that court for the defendant, on an indictment for suffering a saro bank to be played in his house, contrary to an act of assembly of Virginia.
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Error from the circuit court of the district of Columbia, sitting at Alexandria, to reverse a judgment rendered by that court for the defendant, on an indictment for suffering a saro bank to be played in his house, contrary to an act of assembly of Virginia. The indictment sets forth that Simms, “on the 1st “April, 1801, with force and arms, at the county of “Alexandria, did suffer the game called the saro bank to "be played, by divers persons, in a house of which he, “the said Jesse Simms, then and there, at the time of the "said play, had the possession and use, contrary to the “form of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chief Justice
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of the district of Columbia, sitting in the county of Alexandria, in the following case.
By an act of the legislature of Virginia a penalty of £.150 is imposed on any person who permits certain games, enumerated in the act, to be played in a house of which he is the proprietor. The penalty, by that act, is given to any person who will sue for the same.
After the passage of this act, congress assumed the government of the district, and declared the laws of Maryland to remain in force in…
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