Box v. Fluitt

Appellee instituted this -suit against appellant, who was sheriff of Robertson county, and the sureties on his bond, to recover damages for false imprisonment. The trial court sustained an exception and the suit was dismissed as to the sureties, about which no complaint is made.

The material facts show that in February, 1930, a store was burglarized in Robertson county. A few days thereafter Luther Guynes, the deputy sheriff, received information which caused him to suspicion appel-lee, who lived in Leon county, as the party who committed the crime. He went to Leon county and with the…