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WESTON v. COMMONWEALTH

77 S.E.2d 405 (1953)

195 Va. 175

WESTON v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

September 10, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Goolrick & Ashby, Fredericksburg, Wendell Berge, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff in error.

J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Atty. Gen., Frederick T. Gray, Richmond, Asst. Atty. Gen., for Commonwealth.

W. Garland Clarke, Arthur B. Hanson and Elisha Hanson, Washington, D.C., amici curiae for American Newspaper Publishers Ass'n.

Before HUDGINS, C.J., and EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER, SMITH, and WHITTLE, JJ.

EGGLESTON, Justice.

This is a summary proceeding for contempt instituted by rule against Ross Allen Weston, charging him with having publicly uttered certain "defamatory statements consisting of contemptuous and insulting language addressed to, or published of, a judge of the Circuit Court of Arlington county" with respect to his decision in a "proceeding had, or to be had, in said court." The two judges of that court deemed it improper that they hear the case, and...

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