Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board v. Roberts

LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

On August 19, 1960, Sophronia Roberts filed her Ex parte petition in the Circuit Court of Mobile County, in Equity, alleging in an unverified petition, substantially, the following facts:

On April 29, 1960, one W. P. Trawick, an agent of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, seized a 1960 Willis Jeep, the property of Sophronia Roberts, in Mobile County, Alabama. At the time of the seizure, one gallon of “moonshine” whiskey was found in the vehicle, which was being operated by Lewis Roberts, Jr., the husband of Sophronia Roberts. The Jeep was carried to Montgomery by…