Fuqua v. Armour

OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

I

The appellant appeals from the order of the circuit court dismissing his petition for certiorari and adjudging that his 1973 model Chevrolet Corvette automobile be forfeited to the State of Tennessee for a violation of the Tennessee Drug Control Act of 1971, T.C.A. § 52-1443.

That the automobile was used to transport contraband drugs and was thus forfei-table under the statute above-cited is not disputed. On June 29, 1974, appellant Fu-qua made a sale of marijuana to undercover agents of the Sumner County Sheriff’s Department and on July 26,1974, he also made a sale of…