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Show SEIZURE OF LIQUOR IS ANjSSUE About a week a?o the deputy sheriff I at Huntsville seized a quantity of 11- ; quor at tho residence of Mr. and "Mrs Hoken Olsen and has since retained possession of it, notwithstanding the protests of Mrs. Olsen The officer made the seizure under the provision of the seizure law passed by the recent re-cent leglelatuie. The law provides that liquor may be seized, if, in the judgment of the officer, it is being kept in a place for unlawful purposeB, and It was upon that theory that the r Olsen seizure was made Attorney Jensen has gene to Huntsville Hunts-ville to prove before the justice of the peace ot that precinct that the I seizure was made according to tf j provisions of the law Ho says that the burden of proving that the liquor li-quor was, being kept at tho Olsen home foran unlawful purpose is on the prosecution and ho is going to try to do that. If ho succeeds, the liquor will bo confiscated and, rerhaps destroyed de-stroyed The defendant has the right to ask a jury to pass' upon the maJj tor and If such requlst Is made by Mrs. Olsen it may require a numljp of days to settle the Issue. Mrs Olsen claims that the liquor was not being kept at her place of residence for unlawful purposes, but that It was a residue of a stock of Intoxicants In-toxicants tbat had been removed from the Olsen store and erstwhile saloon, for shipment to wholssa'e uealers wh had agreed to take the liquor back be-, cause the Olsons were barred from disposing of it to the trade. Mrs. Olsen Ol-sen has employed an attorney who claims that he" will not only show that the seizure was unlawful, because the late selziuo law is unconstitutional, unconstitution-al, but because the liquor was not at the Olsen home to be- sold or .otherwise .other-wise unlawfully disposed of. |