Stewart v. State

WILLIAMS, Justice.

B. F. Stewart, Roy Bayless and Carol Clodfelter, defendants below, appeal from a judgment which ordered a load of intoxicating beverages forfeited to the State of Texas in a suit brought by the State to declare such forfeiture under the provisions of Art. 666, Sec. 42, Vernon’s Texas P.C.

Defendant Bayless, while operating a 1 ½ ton tractor truck with trailer on U. S. Highway 80 in and through the city limits of Waskom, Harrison County, Texas, was stopped at about 12.:30 A.M., on March 7, 1951, and placed under arrest by the constable of that precinct for the operation of the…