Hickman v. Jones
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, in which court Ilickman, the plaintiff in error, sued Jones, Moore, llegan, Coltart, Clay, and others, defendants in error, for maliciously causing him to be arrested, imprisoned, and prosecuted for a criminal offence, without probable cause.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice SWAYNE,
stated the case, and delivered the opinion of the court..
The facts disclosed in the record, so far as it is necessary to state them, are as follows:
During the late civil war the rebel government established a court known as the “District Court of the Confederate States of America for the Northern District of Alabama.” In that court the plaintiff in error was indicted for treason against the Confederate States. The indictment alleged that troops of the United States were in the Northern District of Alabama engaged in a hostile enterprise against the Confederate States, and…
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