Commonwealth v. Alsop

By JUDGE JOHN A. JAMISON

I have carefully considered each of your respective positions concerning forfeiture of the money and personal effects seized from the above-named Defendant and, I believe, two others.

After careful study of the cases cited, I am of the opinion that that of Commonwealth v. Barrow, 118 Va. 257 (1916), rather than the other two cases cited, one by the Commonwealth and the other by the Petitioner, governs this situation.

It is clear that Section 19.1-8 of the Code is intended to cover forfeiture proceedings, as well as several others listed therein. The Supreme Court in…