State v. Forney
Supreme Court of Kansas
At the May Term, 1883, of the district court of Chase county, in the case of The State v. Wm. Forney, the defendant was found not guilty, and allowed to go hence without day. The costs of the prosecution, taxed at $74.10, were adjudged against the prosecuting witness, J. A. Smith, who appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Ouriam:
William Forney, city marshal of Cottonwood Falls, in Chase county, was charged with unlawfully and feloniously taking, stealing and carrying away in the nighttime, out of and from a drawer in a writing desk in the office of J. A. Smith, one Smith & Wesson revolving pistol, of the value of $15. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, as to Forney; and further found that J. A. Smith was the prosecuting witness, and that the prosecution had been instituted without probable cause, and from malicious motives. Judgment was rendered in accordance with this verdict. J. A. Smith appeals…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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