Puckett v. Clark

PALMORE, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for malicious prosecution in which the plaintiff, Puckett, appeals from a judgment n. o. v. rendered in favor of the defendants after he had been awarded $5,-000 by a jury verdict.

Puckett was arrested on a complaint and warrant charging him with unlawful possession of an illegal fishing device in Mc-Cracken County. He was acquitted. The complaint had been sighed by the appellee Chambliss, a state conservation officer, who was accompanied at the time by the appellee Henson, Assistant Director of Law Enforcement for the Department of Fish and Wildlife…