Clark v. Hampton

Opinion op ti-ie Court by

Judge Hannah

Affirming.

Frank S. Clark instituted this action against W. J. Hampton in the Boyd Circuit Court, alleging that the defendant, while acting as police judge of Ashland, corruptly and maliciously, without an affidavit having been filed before him, issued a warrant charging the plaintiff *699with a felony, the offense of aiding George Adams to escape from the city prison of Ashland, the latter at the time being confined in said prison upon a charge of assault upon the body of an infant female with intent to commit a rape. He further alleged that he was arrested…