Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-11
CASES WILL BE MADE 0F AUTO
 SEIZURES
Attorney General and County Attorney Ross to Make Test of New Law Regarding Transporting of Whiskey

With five prospective claimants of automobiles seized under the amend ment to the prohibition law, preparing to lay claim to the cars and claiming that the cars were used without their knowledge and consent, County At torney Ross is on the side of the state. preparing to uphold the constitutional ity of the new law and to enforce it energetically.
 The county attorneys are being backed uD by Attorney General Wiley Jones, who has taken up the matter of the enforcement os the law and the preparation of complaints under the flaw, with the several county attorneys, by letter.
 The attorney general states that up- on any appeal of a defendant he will take upon himself the responsibility of defending the constitutionality of the law before the supreme court.
 Attorney Generals Letter
 Attorney General Jones' letter to county attorneys. is as follows:
 T enclose copy of the law passed at the recent session of the legisla- ture which authorizes and directs the confiscation of an automobile or other vehicle which may be engaged at any time in the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor within the state of Arizona
 Tt is your duty and mine to rigidly enforce this law regardless of opposi- tion O. any claimant to an auto or other vehicle so engaged. As strenu- ous efforts will be made by claim ants of automobiles caught in an un- lawful transportation to vigorously contest the validity of the law. I sug- gest that in drawing the information for prosecutions under this law that the automobile or other vehicle be de- scribed with such accuracy that the court may pronounce judgment of con fiscation by proper description of the machine in such judgment. IT you as attorney general obtain a judgment of confiscation of any such vehicle caught In such unlawful transportation, I will certainly take upon myself the re- sponsibility of the law before the su- preme court upon any appeal taken by the defendant
 This law is now in full force and effect under its emergency clause and its prompt vigorous and successful enforcement will be most effectual in making bootlegging in Arizona thing of the past. While the sheriffs throughout the state report that in making caDtures of liquor they have ascertained that the price of such liquor has gone up over one thousand per cent. through our enforcement of the prohibition law in Arizona. we are justified in hoping that the effectual enforcement of this new law will ad- vance the price higher than that of radium within the state at an early date, and drive the curse of bootleg. ging from Arizona.
 Yours very truly.
 WILEY E. JONES.
 Attorney General"
 Text of Law
 The new law reads as follows:
 "Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any automobile, carriage. wagon or vehicle of any kind, or any other means of transDortation to be used in the transportation of intoxicating bev- erages or liquors of any kind to or from any person or place in the state of Arizona, and upon conviction of any | person for the misdeameanor pre- | scribed by the prohibition articles of | the constitution of the state of Ari- | zona. who shall have used any such | means of transport. such automobile, | wagon or vehicle of any kind or any l other means of transportation so used | shall be confiscated to the state of {, Arizona.
 Section 9. Within SO days from the rendition of final judgment in such case the sheriff of the county in which such conviction is made shall sell. at public auction, any such means Of transportation SO confiscated, and the proceeds therefrom shall be de- posted with the county treasurer of the county in which the confiscation Is made"
 Two cases have already been found In the United States reports that re- cite decisions of the United States '