BROWN v. COMMONWEALTH


204 S.E.2d 429 (1974)

Charles Willie BROWN v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 22, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Kenneth Zwerling, Arlington (Alan J. Cilman, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

Burnett Miller, III, 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.


POFF, Justice.

Charles Willie Brown appeals a final judgment order entered February 12, 1973 confirming a jury verdict finding him guilty of murder in the second degree and fixing his punishment at ten years in the penitentiary.

The dispositive issue before us is whether the trial court erred in refusing to require a newspaper reporter to divulge the identity of a confidential source of a published account of the crime.

On the day after the killing...

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