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THORNHILL v. WILSON

No. 56474.

504 So.2d 1205 (1987)

David THORNHILL v. Terry WILSON, John Pittman, W.R. Selman and City of Columbia.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 8, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cotton Ruthven, Waller & Waller, Jackson, for appellant.

R.A. Gray, III, Gray, Montague & Pittman, Hattiesburg, for appellees.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J. and ROBERTSON and GRIFFIN, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

The law officer's duty of reasonable investigation collides today with the citizen's interest in freedom from confinement. The defendant officers, responding to increasingly frantic entreaties from an unknown female caller that someone was firing shots in the area of an inhabited camp near the Pearl River, encountered and detained the belligerent and intoxicated plaintiff for some fifteen minutes of interrogation and...

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