Teasley v. Nelson

1. Detention by a proper officer under a valid warrant can not amount to false imprisonment. Page v. Citizens Banking Co., 111 Ga. 73 (7) (36 S. E. 418, (51 L. R. A. 463, 78 Am. St. R. 144). Even where the warrant is defective or void for want of jurisdiction, neither the party procuring it nor the officer executing it, if acting in good faith, is guilty of false imprisonment; the bona fides to be determined by the circumstances of each case. Civil Code (1910), § 4448.

2. Thus, where a convict, claiming that he had completed the servitude required by his sentence, applied to the judge of the…