Dillon v. Nall

BOBBITT, Justice.

Appellee alleged in this case that appellant slandered him by falsely accusing him of “stealing appellant’s cow” and wrongfully causing his arrest and imprisonment in Bexar county, and asked damages against appellant therefor in the Fifty-Seventh district court of Bexar county. Upon a trial of the issues before a jury — as demanded by appellant — and upon a verdict of such jury, appellee was awarded judgment against appellant in the sum of $1,000 for such alleged wrongful and malicious conduct.

In his motion for a new trial, appellant assigned no errors pertaining to the trial…