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WORCESTER TELEGRAM & GAZETTE, INC. v. COMMONWEALTH

354 Mass. 578 (1968)

238 N.E.2d 861

WORCESTER TELEGRAM & GAZETTE, INC. & another vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk, Worcester.

June 28, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren C. Lane, Jr. (Robert H. Golden with him) for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Inc.; Gerald J. Helfenbein for E. Thomas McCabe, Jr., also with him.

Willie J. Davis, Assistant Attorney General (Manuel Morse, Assistant District Attorney, John M. Finn, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, & Evan T. Lawson, Legal Assistant to the Attorney General, with him), for the Commonwealth.

James C. Heigham & Alan D. Sisitsky, for the Massachusetts Newspaper Information Service, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, & SPIEGEL, JJ.

WILKINS, C.J.

Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Inc., the publisher of The Evening Gazette, a daily newspaper, and E. Thomas McCabe, Jr., a reporter, were convicted of criminal contempt in the Superior Court, Worcester County, and bring this petition for writ of error. The case was reserved and reported without decision by the single justice upon the petition, the assignments of error, the return of the Superior Court, the...

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