Appellate Court Overturns Dog Confiscation Due to Lack of Criminal Appropriation Evidence

The appellate court overturned the initial decision to confiscate a found dog under the provision allowing seizure of alienated property, as the requirement for such seizure is that the property must have been acquired through a criminal act of appropriation. The initial order failed to provide any justification demonstrating that the dog qualified as alienated property appropriated criminally by the accused, even though the facts indicated the accused received the dog through a chain of transfers from the finder, making the matter primarily a civil law issue regarding return obligations, not a criminal law basis for confiscation under the relevant statute.