
    United States v. Lefevre.
    Under tlie Act of Assembly of Maryland, 1797, c. 110, the offence of keeping a faro-table can only he committed by a tavern-keeper or retailer of spirituous liquors.
    Indictment for keeping a faro-table, at common law, and on the Act of Assembly of Maryland, 1797, c. 110.
   The Court

was of opinion, that in order to bring the traverser within the Act of Assembly, he must be either a tavern-keeper, or a retailer of spirituous liquors, by being in the custom of selling liquors by retail, either with or without license.

Whereupon Mr. Jones gave up the count upon the statute.  