Quinlan v. Breslin

This is an action on the case for malicious prosecution of the plaintiff on a criminal charge of assault and battery. It was tried before a justice of the superior court, sitting with a jury, who, at the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case, granted the defendant’s motion for a non-suit. The case is before us solely on the plaintiff’s exception to this ruling.

The facts are practically undisputed. The evidence shows that' the plaintiff was arrested by the police of the city of Cranston and delivered into the custody of the police of the city of Warwick on a private complaint for an alleged…