Dowdy v. Redmond

Woods, Judge:

This is an action for malicious prosecution. H. A. Dowdy prosecutes error from a directed verdict in favor of the defendant, W. B. Redmond.

The declaration charges, among other things, that Redmond appeared before the grand jury at the June, 1931, term of the criminal court of Raleigh County, and then and there falsely and maliciously, without any reasonable or probable cause whatsoever, charged plaintiff with, and caused him to be indicted for grand larceny; that he caused plaintiff to be placed on trial; that he caused special counsel to be employed; and that plaintiff was…