Mason v. Commonwealth

Kelly, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

On December 2, 1921, C. H. Mason, trading as Automobile Sales Company, in Washington, D. C., sold to a colored youth named Ossie Clifton, alias James-*821Clifton, a second-hand Haynes touring automobile, at the price of $550.00, receiving $185.00 in cash and retaining the title to secure notes aggregating $365.00 for the residue of the purchase price.

On December 7, 1921, the automobile above mentioned, driven by Clifton and containing twenty gallons of ardent spirits, was seized in Rockingham county by the sheriff. Two other persons, one colored and…