$10,000 U.S. Currency in the Possession of Bruce v. State

ROBERTSON, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a forfeiture proceeding pursuant to § 20-2-93, Code 1975.

The facts in this case are undisputed and were stipulated to before the trial court. On June 25, 1990, Officer J.W. Shelton of the Birmingham Police Department, while working undercover, observed Eric Bruce unlawfully trafficking in cocaine, for which Bruce was arrested. On March 8, 1991, Shelton met Bruce, pursuant to a previous conversation, and Bruce paid Shelton the sum of $10,000 in cash as an attempted bribe. The purpose of the attempted bribery was to dispose of the pending arrest…