Indiana Code
Chapter 5. Remedies: Searches, Seizures, Property Rights, Evidence, and Judicial Sales
7.1-2-5-13. Destroyed Evidence

Sec. 13. If a fluid is poured out or otherwise destroyed or carried away by the tenant or other person when a premises is being searched, the fluid shall be held to be, prima facie, an alcoholic beverage held or possessed contrary to this title and intended for unlawful possession and sale. Proof of the possession of an empty bottle or container, keg, case and vessel that has contained a destroyed alcoholic beverage shall be admitted as evidence of the illegal possession of that alcoholic beverage.
[Pre-1973 Recodification Citation: 7-1-1-39(5).]
Formerly: Acts 1973, P.L.55, SEC.1. As amended by P.L.194-2021, SEC.22.

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