Zebley v. Storey

Citations

• 117 Pa. 478
• 21 W.N.C. 68
• 12 A. 569
• 1888 Pa. LEXIS 438

Syllabus

<p>1. In an action for malicious prosecution, it is error to admit on part of the plaintiff evidence showing the acts or negligence of the prison officials while he is in custody upon a criminal charge preferred by the defendant.</p> <p>2. The charge upon which the plaintiff in such action had been arrested, being a mere misdemeanor and lacking the element of public importance, it is not error to admit the record of the plaintiff’s release from imprisonment upon a writ of habeas corpus, as evidence of the determination of the alleged malicious prosecution.</p>