State v. Cook

At approximately two o'clock of the morning of April 6, 1937, a Ford V-8 truck and attached trailer, driven by R.T. Cook departed from the bulk station of the Economy Oil Company, Inc., in Rayville, Richland Parish, Louisiana, and proceeded in a westerly direction. This equipment carried a number of gallons of gasoline to be delivered for that corporation, of which O.B. Hammett is president and principal stockholder, to a filling station in Arcadia, Louisiana, owned by Melton Nichols.

Sometime before five o'clock of that morning, while Cook was unloading the fuel into the tanks of the Nichols…