Taylor v. Rice

By the form of his complaint the plaintiff assumed the burden, presumably difficult, of showing that the plaintiff went *265before the grand jury of Parke county and maliciously testified falsely, and procured others to testify, that the defendant, upon the person of the woman named, had produced a criminal abortion and miscarriage, resulting ir the death of both woman and child, and by means of said false evidence had maliciously, and without probable cause, procured the indictment of the plaintiff for the crime of abortion.

There is a clear lack of evidence to support this charge as made;…