Saunders v. Baldwin
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Mecklenburg county in an action of trespass on the ease. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
*432The defendant in error, D. E. Baldwin, was arrested, tried and found guilty of petit larceny upon a warrant issued by a justice of the peace of the county of Mecklenburg, upon the complaint of G. A. Saunders, the plaintiff in error. Upon appeal to the circuit court of that county the judgment of the justice was reversed, and the accused acquitted. He thereupon instituted his action of trespass on the cáse against Saunders for malicious prosecution.
Upon the trial of the cause there was a verdict and judgment against the latter. To that judgment this writ of error was awarded.
The trial court…
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