Crouch v. Richards

Appellees were police officers in Benton, Arkansas. This suit was instituted against them by appellant, Herman H. Crouch, to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained while appellees were arresting him and incarcerating him.

The substance of his complaint was that appellees, while arresting him at a time when he was in a drunken condition, and in taking him to jail, unnecessarily, willfully, maliciously and intentionally “struck, beat and kicked the plaintiff (appellant) several times with pistols and blackjacks, severely, painfully and permanently injuring him, ” etc.

The…