BLOUNT v. COMMONWEALTH


195 S.E.2d 693 (1973)

William BLOUNT v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 23, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul M. Lipkin, Robert H. Anderson, Jr., Norfolk (Goldblatt, Lipkin, Cohen, Anderson, Levy & Jenkins, Norfolk, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

Gilbert W. Haith, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, HARMAN and POFF, JJ.


COCHRAN, Justice.

William Blount was convicted in the trial court, sitting with a jury, of unlawfully and feloniously distributing heroin. He is here on a writ of error to the judgment order imposing a sentence, in accordance with the jury verdict, of thirty-five years in the State penitentiary and payment of a fine of $25,000.

Blount's assignments of error that merit our consideration challenge the trial court's actions in (1) ruling on two instructions,...

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