LIGHTMAN v. STATE

No. 593, September Term, 1971.

15 Md. App. 713 (1972)

294 A.2d 149

DAVID M. LIGHTMAN v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided August 4, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., with whom was Douglas D. Connah, Jr., on the brief, for appellant.

E. Stephen Derby, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Henry R. Lord, Deputy Attorney General, and John L. Sanford, Jr., State's Attorney for Worcester County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ANDERSON and ORTH, JJ.


MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant, a newspaper reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun, was summoned before the Grand Jury of Worcester County on August 9, 1971 to testify with respect to his knowledge of suspected illegal drug traffic in Ocean City, Maryland. Earlier, on July 26, 1971, appellant had published an article in The Evening Sun under his byline which was entitled "Ocean City: Where the Drugs Are?"; it was the product of a special...

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