Oberlain v. State

1. It is essential to the validity of a judgment of con-

demnation of a vehicle, upon the ground of its having been engaged in conveying prohibited liquors, that the condemnation proceedings be instituted by the solicitor of the court within ten days after the report of the seizure of the vehicle to him by the officer who seized it. Ga. L. Ex. Ses. 1917, p. 7, see. 20; Phillips v. Stapleton, 23 Ga. App. 303 (97 S. E. 885). On the trial under condemnation proceedings, evidence that the vehicle, which was an automobile, was seized on October 22, 1929, and that the report of the seizure to the…