ONE FORD AUTOMOBILE. BUSSEY v. STATE

ONE FORD AUTOMOBILE. BUSSEY v. STATE
1918 OK 541
175 P. 226
73 Okla. 155
Case Number: 9305
Decided: 09/24/1918
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

In re ONE FORD AUTOMOBILE. BUSSEY
v.
STATE.

Syllabus

¶0 Intoxicating Liquors--Transporting Liquor--Seizure of Automobile -- "Appurtenance."
An automobile seized January 28, 1917, in the unlawful conveyance of intoxicating liquors, in the presence of an officer having power to serve criminal process, was not subject to seizure by such official and forfeiture to the state, under the provision of section 3617, Rev. Laws 1910, and is not an "appurtenance" within the meaning of that section. Following One Cadillac Automobile v. State, 68 Okla. 116, 172 P. 62.

Error from County Court, Rogers County; Edward Jordon, Judge.

In the matter of the seizure of one Ford automobile by the State, Frank Bussey interpleaded. Judgment for the State, and the interpleader brings error. Reversed.

Goldesberry & Boone, for plaintiff in error.
Mack R. Shanks, for defendant in error.

GALBRAITH, C.

¶1 This is an appeal from the judgment of forfeiture rendered in the trial court against one Ford automobile seized on January 28, 1917, charged with being used as a conveyance for the transportation of whisky from one point in the state to another, on the day of seizure.

¶2 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 P. 62, and the subsequent cases following 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.

¶3 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.