State v. Oster
| Court | United States State Supreme Court of Kansas |
| Citation | 241 P. 112,119 Kan. 874 |
| Docket Number | 26,584 |
| Parties | THE STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. (CLYDE BROWN) and STELLA VAN OSTER, Appellant |
| Decision Date | 05 December 1925 |
241 P. 112
119 Kan. 874
THE STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee,
v.
(CLYDE BROWN) and STELLA VAN OSTER, Appellant
No. 26,584
Supreme Court of Kansas
December 5, 1925
Decided July, 1925.
Appeal from Finney district court; CHARLES E. VANCE, judge.
Judgment affirmed.
SYLLABUS
SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.
1. INTOXICATING LIQUORS--Forfeiture of Transporting Automobile--Knowledge of Owner. An automobile which the owner places in the possession of another for general use and such other uses it in the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquors without the knowledge of the owner, is subject to forfeiture and condemnation under the statute relating to liquor nuisances, following State v. Peterson, 107 Kan. 641, 193 P. 342, and State v. Stephens, 109 Kan. 254, 198 P. 1087.
2. SAME -- Evidence of Intoxicating Character -- Competency. Officers of experience who found the liquor transported and determined by the sense of smell and from its appearance that it was strong intoxicating liquor are qualified to testify that it was intoxicating, and no error was committed in the admission of such testimony.
William H. Thompson and Wilbert F. Thompson, both of Tulsa, Okla., for the appellant.
C. B. Griffith, attorney-general, C. A. Burnett, assistant attorney-general, and Ray H. Calihan, county attorney, for the appellee.
Johnston, C. J. Hopkins, J., not sitting.
OPINION
JOHNSTON, C. J.:
This appeal involves the validity of a judgment condemning and forfeiting an automobile found and declared to be a common nuisance. The grounds of forfeiture were that the automobile driven by one Clyde Brown had been used in transporting intoxicating liquors from one place to another within the state in violation of law. On one occasion when Brown was driving the car he was arrested on a charge that he was unlawfully in the possession of intoxicating liquors, and on another that he was unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquors in the car in question from one place to another within the state. At the time of the arrest the automobile was seized and the possession of the same was thereafter held by the sheriff. Stella Van Oster intervened and asked to be made a party to the proceeding against the automobile, and she alleged that she was the owner of the same, and that if Brown had been transporting [119 Kan. 875] liquor in the car it was done without her knowledge or sanction. She further alleged that Brown did not have liquor in the car when it was seized by the sheriff, that none was found therein by the sheriff, and that the seizure and forfeiture of the car by him and the subsequent condemnation was without authority of law and a violation of...
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