Lowe v. Kansas

Citations

• 163 U.S. 81
• 16 S. Ct. 1031
• 41 L. Ed. 78
• 1896 U.S. LEXIS 2247

Syllabus

<p>A person upon whose oath a criminal information for a libel is filed, and who is found by the jury, as part of their verdict acquitting the defendant, to be the prosecuting witness, and to have instituted the prosecution without probable cause and with malicious motives, and is thereupon adjudged by the court to pay the costs, and to be committed until payment thereof, iu accordance with the General Statutes of Kansas of 1889, c. 82, § 826, and who does not appear to have been denied at the trial the opportunity of offering arguments and evidence upon the motives and the cause of the prosecution, is not deprived of liberty or property without due process of law, or denied the equal protection of the laws, contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.</p>