Court Opinion

ID: 5143257
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-02 01:00:39.066394+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:24:39.001442
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Opinion by
GALBRAITH, C.
This is an pn-rwi from the indament of forfeiture rendered in the trial court against one Ford automobile seized on January 28, 1917, charged with being used as a conveyance for tb» f’”'n snorts tí on of whiskv from one point in the state to another, on the day of goi-rnre.
The case is controlled by. the decision of this court in case No. 9008, One Cadillac Automobile v. State, reported in 68 Okla. 116, 172 Pac. 62, and the subsequent cases that decision to the effect that the judgment of confiscation was not authorized by the law as it existed at that time of the seizure. The judgment appealed from must therefore be reversed.
It is ordered that the judgment appealed from be reversed, and the cause remanded, with directions to the trial court to vacate the judgment of forfeiture and return the Ford to its owner.
By the Court: It is so ordered.