28-4-290
Section 28-4-290 Advertisement and sale by sheriff, etc., of vehicle, animal, etc., seized
for illegal transportation of liquor or beverages where owner, etc., cannot be ascertained;
rights in seized vehicles, animals, etc., disposed of upon such sale by sheriff or sale by
court in condemnation proceedings. Any sheriff or other officer who seizes or comes into possession
of such vehicle, animal or property illegally used for the transportation of liquor or beverages
within or into the state and does not know or cannot ascertain the possessor or owner thereof
shall advertise and sell the same according to the rules for selling personal property under
execution, and both the court in condemnation proceedings and the said officer on advertisement
shall sell the right of all interested persons in and to said conveyances, vehicles and other
property who aided or assisted in the illegal transportation or who had knowledge or notice
thereof or could by reasonable diligence have obtained...
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28-4-292
Section 28-4-292 Advertisement and sale of receptacles, etc., of prohibited liquors and beverages.
All vessels and receptacles of prohibited liquors and beverages such as handbags, suitcases
or trunks, which have been seized in law enforcement and which are in the custody of any person
or officer, after conviction of the parties from whom seized of the violation of the law in
respect thereto, shall be sold after notice of sale by advertisement in a newspaper published
in the county for 10 days in a daily paper or for two issues in a weekly paper. The proceeds
of the sale shall be paid into the municipal treasury, if sale is made by a municipal officer
or custodian of such contraband seized by municipal officers, or to the law-enforcement fund
in the State Treasury if made by any other officer or custodian. (Acts 1919, No. 7, p. 6;
Code 1923, §4783; Code 1940, T. 29, §252.)...
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28-4-269
Section 28-4-269 Forfeiture and condemnation proceedings generally - Issues and parties generally;
style of action; trial of action generally. The issue thus framed shall be deemed an action
pending in the court of the judge who issued the warrant between the State of Alabama, on
the relation of the complainant, and the liquor and beverages and vessels and receptacles
so seized and against the party in possession of the liquors and beverages or against the
party who interposes the claim, and may be entitled in the name of the State of Alabama against
the said party so appearing, if any, and if no one appears, may be entitled as against said
liquors and beverages adding for identification the name of the person or persons mentioned
in the affidavit or warrant. The said action shall be tried in the district court as other
actions are tried therein. (Acts 1909, No. 191, p. 63; Acts 1915, No. 2, p. 8; Code 1923,
§4757; Code 1940, T. 29, §226.)...
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28-4-316
Section 28-4-316 Grand jury proceedings generally - Effect of failure of person to attend and
testify in obedience to summons. Any person who is summoned as a witness before the grand
jury to answer as to any violation of law for the suppression of intemperance or prohibiting
the manufacture, sale or other disposition of prohibited liquors or beverages or the keeping
or maintaining of any unlawful drinking place, or liquor nuisance and who fails or refuses
to attend and testify in obedience to such summons without good cause, to be determined by
the court, is guilty of contempt and also of a misdemeanor and, on conviction of such misdemeanor,
must be fined not less than $20.00 nor more than $300.00 and may also be imprisoned in the
county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than three months, at the
discretion of the court. (Acts 1909, No. 191, p. 63; Code 1923, §4633; Code 1940, T. 29,
§109.)...
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28-4-317
Section 28-4-317 Grand jury proceedings generally - Offenses as to which witnesses may be required
to testify; initial interrogation of witnesses to particular offense not required. The witnesses
before the grand jury to give evidence may be required to answer generally as to any offense
against the laws of Alabama for the promotion of temperance and the suppression of intemperance
committed within their knowledge during the 12 months next preceding or as to any violation
within said time of any law of the state prohibiting the manufacture, sale or other disposition
of any of said prohibited liquors or beverages or the maintaining of any unlawful drinking
place or liquor nuisance, and it shall not be necessary to first specially interrogate the
witnesses to any particular offenses. (Acts 1909, No. 191, p. 63; Code 1923, §4634; Code
1940, T. 29, §110.)...
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28-4-282
Section 28-4-282 Appliances used, etc., for distillation or manufacture of prohibited liquors
and beverages declared contraband; said appliances and products thereof to be summarily destroyed
by sheriffs, etc., finding same; property, etc., where distillery, etc., found forfeited to
state. All appliances which have been used or are used or ready to be used for the purpose
of distilling or manufacturing any prohibited liquors or beverages are contraband, and no
person, firm or corporation or association of persons shall have any property rights in or
to the same, and when said appliances or apparatus so used or ready to be used or that have
been used for the manufacture of any prohibited liquors and beverages shall be found by any
sheriff or other law officer, the same shall be by said officer at once summarily destroyed
and rendered useless for service. The officer shall also summarily destroy any liquor or liquids,
the product of a distillery or plant for the making of a prohibited...
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28-4-285
Section 28-4-285 Conveyances, vehicles of transportation or animals used for illegal conveyance
of prohibited liquors and beverages declared contraband and forfeited to state; seizure of
said conveyances, etc., and reporting thereof by sheriffs, etc., finding same; confiscation
and condemnation generally. All conveyances and vehicles of transportation of any kind, whether
on the waters of the state, under the waters, on land or in the air, including any animals
that may be used in such transportation, whether hitched or not hitched to any vehicle so
illegally used, together with all harness and other accessories employed in such illegal transportation,
which have been or are used for the illegal conveying of any prohibited liquors or beverages
into this state or from one point in the state to another point within the state shall be
contraband and shall be forfeited to the State of Alabama, and shall be seized by any sheriff
or any other person acting under authority of law in the...
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28-4-294
Section 28-4-294 Preparation of return by officer seizing prohibited liquors and beverages;
officer to report delivery to any person, destruction, etc., of same. When any officer shall
seize or take possession of any prohibited liquors and beverages in the enforcement of the
law, he shall at once, in writing, make a return of his acts, with a statement of the quantity
and kind of liquors and beverages to the court that has or secures jurisdiction of the case.
When any such liquor or beverage is destroyed, delivered to any person or otherwise disposed
of, the officer acting in the matter shall in writing make a report of the facts to such court.
(Acts 1915, No. 491, p. 553; Code 1923, §4772; Code 1940, T. 29, §241.)...
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28-4-323
Section 28-4-323 Admissibility and effect of evidence showing similarity in color, odor and
general appearance between prohibited liquor or beverage and beverage shown to be manufactured,
sold, kept, etc., by defendant; applicability of rule as to admissibility, etc., of said evidence
in proceedings for abatement of liquor nuisances, etc. (a) In all prosecutions against any
person for manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, keeping or having in possession for
sale, bartering, exchanging, furnishing, giving away or otherwise disposing of prohibited
liquors and beverages or for any one of the said acts, it shall be competent for the state
to give in evidence the fact that the beverage which the evidence may tend to show the defendant
had manufactured, sold, bartered, exchanged, furnished, given away or otherwise disposed of,
possesses the same color, odor and general appearance or the same taste, color and general
appearance of a prohibited liquor or beverage such as whiskey, rum,...
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9-11-252.1
Section 9-11-252.1 Motor vehicle, weapons, etc., used in nighttime deer hunting declared contraband;
seizure report; condemnation and forfeiture; disposition of proceeds. (a) Any motor vehicle,
or any gun, rifle, ammunition or other hunting equipment which has been or is used for illegal
nighttime deer hunting shall be contraband, and, in the discretion of the circuit court may
be forfeited to the State of Alabama, as hereinafter provided. (b) The sheriff or any other
person authorized to enforce the game and fish laws of this state who apprehends any person
hunting deer in the nighttime, or who finds any vehicle which is being or has been used in
such illegal nighttime hunting shall seize such vehicle and any gun, rifle, ammunition or
other deer hunting equipment found in the possession of or on the person of such person or
in or on such vehicle and shall report such seizure and the facts connected therewith to the
district attorney or other prosecuting official in the judicial...
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