Fuller v. Sloan

BRADY, Justice:

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Winston County, Mississippi, wherein the appellant sought damages, both actual and punitive, resulting from false arrest, false imprisonment and assault committed by the appellee, while acting in his official capacity, against the appellant. The jury returned a verdict for the appellee and from this verdict an appeal was taken.

The appellant alleged that the appellee arrested him through personal animosity growing out of his repeating a statement by one Bobby Flake, that Flake had on a former occasion delivered whisky to the home of…