Karner v. Stump

HUNTER, Associate Justice.

This suit was filed on the 17th day of January, 1894, by the appellee against J. C. Karner and J. G. Mars,, for false imprisonment alleged to have been committed on the 16th day of October, 1893, by arresting the appellee without a written warrant of arrest, on a charge of theft of two mares from Bandy’s livery stable in Denton, Texas, on the night of the 15th of October, 1893, and confinement in the county jail on said charge from 8 o’clock p. m. of said day until 8 o’clock a. m. the next day.

The defendants plead the general issue, and want of malice, and that they…