
    The United States vs. James Lemmons.
    An indictment must conclude “ against the peace and dignity of the United States.”
    
      October, 1828.
    — Indictment for setting up and keeping a faro bank, determined before Benjamin Johnson, Thomas P. Eskridge, William Trimble, and James Woodson Bates, judges.
   On motion of the defendant, by his attorney, the indictment was quashed, because it did not conclude “ against the peace and dignity of the United States of America.”  