Cooper v. Adams

TO an action for false imprisonment against a justice of the peace and a constable, the defendants pleaded in justification, that an affidavit had been made before the justice, charging the plaintiflf with having violently assaulted, beaten, and wounded the deponent, wherefore the justice had issued his warrant, &c. Held, that the plea was not objectionable, after a verdict in favour of the defendants, for not showing that the assault and battery were charged to have been unlawfully made.

The arresting of an offender, and the re-taking of him on fresh pursuit after an escape, constitute but…