Keeton v. Northern Alabama Ry. Co.

The only question argued by appellant in the briefs filed on the submission is whether or not there was evidence tending to show that the defendant was responsible in fact for the prosecution of the plaintiff on a charge of murder, resulting in his arrest and confinement in the county jail of Jefferson county.

The evidence is without dispute that the prosecution was initiated by a sworn complaint made by Miles P. Coker, a state law enforcement officer working under the supervision of the Attorney General, before W. F. Kitchens, as judge of the city court of Jasper. That plaintiff was arrested…