Lyons v. Worley

This ’is an appeal from an order overruling the motion of the plaintiff for a new trial in an action of false imprisonment. Several errors are assigned which the plaintiff claims would entitle him. to a new trial, but the vital question is whether the arrest without a warrant was authorized or unauthorized.

The plaintiff complained of an arrest made November 26, 1924, in the town of Paoli by the defendant Perry Pierson, acting as a deputy sheriff, and the defendant J. C. Gross, each of them acting under instructions from O. P. Worley, who was sheriff of Garvin county, and of C. E. Vaut, who…