Mitchell v. George

OPINION

PURYEAR, Judge.

This is an appeal in error by the defendant, Howard George, from a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff, Henry Mitchell, for damages for malicious prosecution. The present suit grows out of a Criminal Court proceeding wherein plaintiff was acquitted in the Criminal Court of Davidson County, Tennessee, upon a charge of assault with intent to commit murder.

During the pendency of the criminal proceeding plaintiff spent sixty-two days in the County Jail awaiting trial.

The plaintiff and defendant first became acquainted with each other in the year 1961, at which time defendant…