Bartlett v. Jennison

This was an action for a malicious prosecution. The declaration charges that the defendant, “on, &c., at, &c., appeared before one George, Miller, Esquire, then and there being a justice of the peace in and for said county, and authorized to keep the peace within the same, and to hear, &c.; and then and there before the said George Miller, being such justice as aforesaid, falsely and maliciously, and without any reasonable or probable cause whatever, charged the said plaintiff with having wilfully and maliciously, on, &c., at, &c., set on fire and burnt a certain district school house, in…