Spear v. Hiles

This appeal is by the defendant from a judgment recovered against him in an action for an alleged malicious prosecution.

The plaintiff, together with her husband and one George L. Haney, was prosecuted criminally by the defendant for the felonious burning of certain warehouses of the defendant and his son, at Dexterville, in Wood county, on the night of July I, 1883. On such complaint she was arrested July 13, 1883, and held for trial (with the other parties accused), and was confined for several weeks in the jail of that county. She was afterwards tried in the circuit court on an information…