Armstrong v. State Ex Rel. Embry

LAWSON, Justice.

This is a proceeding in equity instituted by the State on relation of the Solicitor of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, under the authority of § 247 et seq., Title-29, Code 1940, to condemn one Buick automobile alleged to have been used in the illegal transportation of prohibited liquor.

From a decree of condemnation, J. D. Armstrong, operator of the car and defendant in the cause, has prosecuted this appeal.

The bill was filed in the equity court of Etowah County and charged in part as follows: “That on, to-wit: December 2, 1944, the said J. D. Armstrong was operating and…