Harrod v. State

The appeal is from a decree in equity condemning an automobile, the property of respondent, J. G. Harrod, because of its use ip the transportation of prohibited liquors.

The sole testimony in the record discloses that a police officer of the city of Troy found the car parked on the side of a street, between 8 and 9 o’clock at night, on the 18th of October, 1931; that Harrod was on the front seat of the ear asleep; that Mr. Spear was lying on the back seat asleep ; that a pint bottle about two-thirds full of whisky was found on the back seat behind Mr. Spear.

This evidence did not justify a…