Higgins v. State

About 11:00 p.m., on the evening of March 15, 1974, an employee at the electric plant of the Easton Utilities Commission saw a black truck loaded with reels of wire leaving the plant. There appeared to be three people in the truck. This event was, in due course, reported to the Easton police department, and, from them, the State Police learned of it. A police radio broadcast advised officers to be on the lookout for the truck.

Less than an hour later, a State trooper heading toward the Annapolis barracks to start his tour of duty spotted a black truck loaded with wire proceeding westerly on U.…