State of Georgia v. Sewell

Deen, Chief Judge.

The state complains in this condemnation action against a Datsun seized by the state while being driven by the appellant James Sewell that the court, trying the affidavit of illegality filed by James Sewell and his mother Louise E. Sewell, found that the latter had a security interest in the vehicle to the extent of $5,800 purchase money. Thirty pounds of marijuana were confiscated at the time of the seizure.

1. “A forfeiture of. a conveyance encumbered by a bona fide security interest is subject to the interest of the secured party if he neither had knowledge of, nor…