$14,832.00 United States Currency And One (1) 2010 Mercedes and Certain Property v. the State of Texas ( 2022 )

Fourth Court of Appeals
San Antonio, Texas
JUDGMENT
No. 04-21-00044-CV
$14,832.00 UNITED STATES CURRENCY and one (1) 2010 Mercedes and certain property,
Appellants
v.
The STATE of Texas,
Appellee
From the 131st Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas
Trial Court No. 2017-CI-17767
Honorable Cynthia Marie Chapa, Judge Presiding
BEFORE CHIEF JUSTICE MARTINEZ, JUSTICE RIOS, AND JUSTICE VALENZUELA
In accordance with this court’s opinion of this date, the trial court’s order is AFFIRMED.
No costs of appeal are taxed in this case because the person from whom the property was seized,
Serge L. Hiden, is indigent. 1
SIGNED April 27, 2022.
_____________________________
Rebeca C. Martinez, Chief Justice
1
In forfeiture proceedings, the defendant is the seized property, but the complaining party on appeal, the claimant, is
the person from whom the property was seized. See TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. art. 59.04(j); see also State v. $217,590.00
in U.S. Currency, 18 S.W.3d 631, 632 (Tex. 2000).