Case Name: MARSHALL vs. MADDOCK
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1809-12-06
Citations: 1 Litt. Sel. Cas. 106
Docket Number: 
Parties: MARSHALL vs. MADDOCK.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 16
Pages: 106–106

Head Matter:
MARSHALL vs. MADDOCK.
Dec. 6.
To support an action for malicious prosecution, want of probable cause & malice must have combined in the prosecution.
An appeal from a judgment of the Shelby Circuit Court, overruling a motion for a new trial in an action for malicious prosecution.

Opinion:
Opinion of
the Court.
THE action for malicious prosecution must be supported by the want of probable cause, and by malice, conjoined. The law will infer malice from the want probable cause; but the most vindictive and express malice in the prosecution, apart from the other constituent of the action, will not do.
In the present case, the evidence offered on the part of the appellant, shows probable cause for the prosecution for larceny, by the appellee, complained of, neither does the evidence exhibit any express malice on the the part of the appellant.
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered.