Malicious criminal prosecution

Malicious criminal prosecution consists of maliciously procuring or attempting to procure an indictment or otherwise causing or attempting to cause a criminal charge to be preferred or prosecuted against an innocent person, knowing him to be innocent. Whoever commits malicious criminal prosecution is guilty of a misdemeanor. History: 1953 Comp., § 40A-27-1, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 303, § 27-1.