ANDERSON v. STANCO SPORTS LIBRARY, INC.

No. 75-2031.

542 F.2d 638 (1976)

John Paul ANDERSON, Appellant, v. STANCO SPORTS LIBRARY, INC., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 5, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank K. Sloan and Betty M. Sloan, Columbia, S. C., for appellant.

Harvey L. Golden, Columbia, S. C., for appellee.

Before CRAVEN and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges, and FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge.


CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

John Paul Anderson sued Stanco Sports Library, Inc., publisher of Detective Cases magazine, for malicious libel. He has appealed the district court's entry of summary judgment for the defendant. We affirm.

I.

In December 1965 Anderson was convicted of the murder of his wife and was sentenced to life imprisonment. His trial in Charleston County, South Carolina, lasted for over a week and was reported by the local newspapers...

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