Kroger Co. v. Demakes

COLEMAN, Chief Justice.

This is a false imprisonment case. The defendant appeals from a judgment entered for the plaintiff based on a jury verdict.

While at a check-out counter at Kroger’s Grocery Store, Mrs. Lula Demakes picked up a package of cigarettes from a rack in front of the checker’s stand. She held the cigarettes in her hand while writing a check to pay for her groceries. A security guard standing at the end of the counter saw her take the cigarettes and concluded that she had not paid for them. When she left the store with the cigarettes the security guard stopped her and requested…