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46 N.C. 491

Jones v. Jones

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided August 15, 1854

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1854-08-15

ActxoN on the case for a malicious prosecution, tried before his Honor Judge Diok, at the extra Term of Buncombe Superior Court, in June 1858. It appeared in evidence that the plaintiff was a deputy sheriff in said county, in the years 1843 and 1844, and as such had for collection a justice’s judgment in favor of one A.. B.. Chunn, against Hugh Clark and Reuben Brown.

Decided 1854-08-15

Battle, J.

¶1The charge of his Honor, in relation to the en-quiry, whether the plaintiff had in fact arrested Clark and Brown, previously to his examination in the County Court, •where he swore that he had not done so, is fully supported by the decision of the Court in the action of slander between the same parties, growing out of the same transaction. Jones v. Jones, 13 Ired. Rep. 448. The residue of the charge followed necessarily from the previous part of it, and the defendant’s Counsel has very properly declined to contend that it is erroneous. The testimony, of J. W. Reeves, S. King and Willie Jones, as stated in the bill of exceptions, is substantially the same with *495what Aras sworn by the plaintiff in the County Court, as testified by Pierce Roberts; and his Honor was therefore right in refusing to instruct the jury, otherwise than he did, upon the testimony of Roberts. The judgment must be affirmed.

¶2Judgment affirmed.

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