Miller v. Brown

This was. an action commenced by Brown against Miller, in the Cooper Circuit Court, for a malicious prosecution, in which Brown had judgment, from which Miller has appealed to this Court. The declaration charges in substance, that the defendant falsely and maliciously, and' without any reasonable or probable cause whatever, made a complaint on oath before a Justice of the Peace of Cooper county, that two guns had been feloniously taken, stolen and carried away from his said Miller’s premises in said county, and that he had probable cause to suspect, and did suspect, that they were concealed…