Carroll v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

At about three o’clock on the morning of January 19,1981, the appellants Carroll and Cox, truck drivers, drove a large tractor-trailer rig onto the scales of a state weigh-station near Hope. On that particular night shift the station was being manned by Charles Caldwell, a state employee with five years’ experience at his job. Caldwell’s examination of the bill of lading and other documents submitted to him by Carroll disclosed various discrepancies and omissions that led within an hour or so to an inspection of the contents of the trailer by three administrative…