Willis v. State Ex Rel. Orme

GARDNER, Justice.

Proceedings in equity by the state for the condemnation and forfeiture to the state of one Plymouth car, under section 4778 et seq., Code 1923. Koger v. State, 215 Ala. 319, 110 So. 573. From a decree of condemnation, Floyd J. Willis, the owner of the car and defendant in the cause, has prosecuted this appeal.

The case was tried upon oral testimony before the chancellor, and for the state rested upon the evidence of two deputy sheriffs who trailed defendant’s car from his store to a negro’s house on another street in Troy, where was delivered a box containing prohibited…