Stansbury v. Luttrell

The appellee, Warren Lee Luttrell, brought an action at law for malicious prosecution against the appellant, John E. Stansbury, and his co-defendants, II. Melvin Bull and Lester L. Stevens, for having falsely and maliciously charged, before a justice of the peace, the appellee with larceny of three trees, and having procured the issuance of a warrant and the arrest of the appellee until he was released on bail, and thereafter his indictment for such crime, with the result that the appellee was acquitted. The outcome of this action was a judgment against the appellant, after the jury had been…