Adams v. State Ex Rel. Whetstone

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

On March 11, 1990, Gulf Shores police officers stopped a 1986 Isuzu Trooper vehicle being driven by Sam Small and in which John Hutchinson Adams, IV, was one of two passengers. In searching the vehicle, Officer Steve Stuart found a flashlight in the map compartment behind the driver's seat which contained an amount of L.S.D., a controlled substance. Adams confirmed to the officers that he was the owner of the vehicle; whereupon, both Small, the driver, and Adams, the owner, were charged with unlawful possession of…