Boxer v. Slack

Lovins, Judge:

Joseph Boxer instituted this action of trespass on the case in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County to recover from John Mark Slack, former Sheriff of Kanawha County, and his deputies, Adam Burford, Frank Skaggs and Nobel Jenkins, damages arising from an alleged malicious prosecution. At the conclusion of plaintiff’s evidence, the trial court sustained defendant’s motion to strike plaintiff’s evidence and direct a verdict in their favor, and entered judgment on such verdict, and to that action of the court below, this writ of error is prosecuted.

Plaintiff testified that he was…