CRAWLEY, Judge.
Waymon Eugene Gatlin appeals from a judgment ordering that $4,100 in currency be condemned as contraband and forfeited to the State because, the trial court found, the money "was used or intended to be used in a transaction for controlled substances." We reverse.
During the State's case-in-chief, the following evidence was elicited: In the early morning hours of July 4, 2001, Officer David Hicks of the Trinity Police Department stopped a Chevrolet...
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