Rawls v. . Bennett

The criminal prosecution of which the plaintiff here complains was the result of admissions made by the plaintiff in the civil action brought against him for an accounting in his capacity as manager, secretary and treasurer of Rawls Motor Sales and Service, Inc. The defendant, her counsel, the solicitor and the grand jury all acted upon the adverse examination in that suit. It afforded a reasonable ground for one of ordinary caution “to believe, or to entertain an honest and strong suspicion,” that the plaintiff was guilty. Stacey v. Emery, 97 U. S., 642. In a very real sense, then, it may be…