Sprang v. Doench

Andrew Sprang sued Louis Doench, a police officer, in the Hamilton Common Pleas for malicious prosecution, assault and battery and false imprisonment. Sprang claimed that Doench, on Nov. 6, 1921, struck him with a baton in the back of his head. The testimony showed that Sprang was taken to the police station and from there to the Cincinnati Gen- • eral Hospital.

Doench claimed that Sprang was intoxicated at the time of the alleged arrest and sought to have admitted into evidence a. record book of the receiving ward of the Hospital. .Said record contained a diagnosis of each patient received at…