Holberg Mercantile Co. v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the circuit court of, second district, Jones county. Hon. Robert L. Bullard, Judge. The state of Mississippi, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; one Isaac Laskey, was defendant there, and the Holberg Mercantile Company, appellant, was claimant.
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Prom the circuit court of, second district, Jones county. Hon. Robert L. Bullard, Judge. The state of Mississippi, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; one Isaac Laskey, was defendant there, and the Holberg Mercantile Company, appellant, was claimant. The proceedings originated in an affidavit, under Code 1906, § 1749, charging that defendant Laskey was keeping for unlawful sale and was offering to sell unlawfully, in a designated box car, large quantities of intoxicating liquors. A warrant for the seizure_ of the liquors so kept was issued by the justice of the peace, before whom the…
1Opinion of the Court
Flowers,* Special Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Affidavit was made before a justice of the peace, under section 1749 of the Code of 1906, that liquors were being kept for *24an unlawful purpose in certain rooms and buildings in tbe city of Laurel. The writ issued and liquors valued at more than '$400 were seized as the property of one Ike Laskey. Four claimants appeared, whose affidavits together covered the liquors seized. The value of that part claimed by each of them was less than $200. At the hearing the justice of the peace made an order sending the entire matter to the circuit…
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