Greenwade v. Mills

This was an action brought by the defendant in error for a malicious prosecution instituted against-him by the plaintiff in error, in causing him to be arrested and imprisoned upon a charge of stealing a negro slave, the property of the plaintiff in error, of which charge he was acquitted.

On the trial in the court below, the plaintiff gave in evidence the affidavit of the defendant preferring the charge, the warrant of a justice of the peace issued against him thereon, and proved his arrest under the warrant, and his discharge by the justices before whom he was tried. He further proved that…