J.C. Penney Co., Inc. v. Blush

J.C. Penney Company Inc. and V.A. Taylor appeal from a $5,000 judgment entered against them by the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County in a suit for malicious prosecution brought by Gloria Hughes Blush. There is no cross appeal.

The incident which gave rise to the suit occurred at about 5:30 in the afternoon at the J.C. Penney Store in Jackson Mall. Mrs. Blush testified that she had gone there for the purpose of buying presents for a Christmas party. She entered through the east door and stopped by the cosmetics department where she picked up two sticks of eyeliner and…