Tidwell v. Witherspoon

Citations

• 21 Fla. 359

Syllabus

<p>1. A judgment for defendant in an action for malicious prosecution is a bar to a subsequent suit against him for slander for the same accusation as the one upon which he was arrested, and for which he brought his action for malicious prosecution, though said slanderous words were uttered on a different occasion, provided they were uttered before suit for malicious prosecution was commenced.</p> <p>2. It is competent to ask a witness if he had not heard of the commis- , sion of a crime of which another was accused in his presence as explanatory of the understanding of witness of the accusation.</p> <p>3. In such a case to ask a witness “if it was not a matter of general notoriety” that such a crime had been committed, is error.</p>