Bekkeland v. Lyons

GAINES, Chief Justice.

This case comes to us upon the following certificate:

“The above styled and numbered cause is now duly pending before us on appeal from the County Court of Bosque County, upon facts and pleadings as hereinafter substantially stated, to wit: The action is for damages for an alleged malicious prosecution. Appellee, who was the plaintiff below, pleaded that appellant voluntarily appeared before a justice of the peace and instituted a criminal prosecution against him by falsely and maliciously charging him with theft, and with cutting and hauling timber from the land of…