Williams v. State

The bill seeks to condemn a Ford truck as contraband property used by the defendant for the unlawful purpose of transporting prohibited liquors, and avers that “the defendant, Avery Williams, was in possession of and operating” the truck, using the same for transporting liquors in De Kalb county. These averments are denied by the answer and this denial casts upon the complainant the burden of proving them.

It is a familiar principle supported by uniform authority that to authorize relief in equity the allegations and proof must correspond, and no matter how just the demand established by the…