Commonwealth ex rel. Williams v. Wilson

PALMORE, Judge.

KRS 242.310 through 330 provide for the forfeiture of property used in violation of' the local option laws. KRS 242.340 and 350 provide lesser remedies and penalties in the form of injunction, abatement, imposition of bond, and padlocking.

Following appellee’s plea of guilty and conviction on a charge of illegally possessing alcoholic beverages in dry territory1 the county attorney sued in the name of the state for the confiscation and forfeiture of the building owned by appellee in which said beverages had been found in his possession. In the alternative, the complaint demanded…