Opinion
[No. 4, October Term, 1949.]
Decided per curiam January 11, 1950.
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Baltimore City (GRAY, Jr., Associate Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.).
Hearst Radio, Inc., was found guilty of contempt for broadcasting over its local radio station, WFBR, news dispatches relating to a person in custody of the police on a charge of murder, and it appeals.
Reversed.
Submitted on briefs before MARBURY, C.J., DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, GRASON, HENDERSON and MARKELL, JJ.
Karl F. Steinmann, Edith De Busk, Matthew S. Rae, Jr., and Bernard W. Rubenstein, on the brief for the appellant.
Hall Hammond, Attorney General, Harrison L. Winter, Assistant Attorney General, J. Bernard Wells, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, Anselm Sodaro and J. Harold Grady, Assistants State's Attorneys, on the brief for the appellee.
Decided per curiam January 11, 1950.
Under the authority of the Baltimore Radio Show, Inc., etc., WFBR v. State of Maryland, the Baltimore Broadcasting Corp., etc., WCBM v. State of Maryland and the Maryland Broadcasting Co., etc., WITH, et al. v. State of Maryland, 193 Md. 300, 67 A.2d 497, and for the reasons given in the opinion filed therein, it is ORDERED BY THE COURT OF APPEALS that the order in the above entitled case be and the same is hereby reversed with costs.