State v. Brown

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This appeal involves the validity of a judgment condemning and forfeiting an automobile found and declared to be a common nuisance. The grounds of forfeiture were that the automobile driven by one Clyde Brown had been used in transporting intoxicating liquors from one place to another within the state in violation of law. On one occasion when Brown was driving the car he wás arrested on a charge that he was unlawfully in the possession of intoxicating liquors, and on another that he was unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquors in…