Sisk v. State Ex Rel. Smith

GARDNER, Chief Justice.

The appeal is from a final decree condemning a Plymouth automobile claimed and owned by one Robert Sisk as having been illegally used for the transportation of prohibited liquors in Madison County, Alabama. That the automobile had been so used while being operated by the owner Sisk is established by the undisputed proof.

Though there are a number of assignments of error, each is referable to a single question raised by the defendant on this appeal — that is, the question of laches.

The automobile in question was found by the officers to be illegally transporting liquors…