Blount v. Commonwealth

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, (2) refusing to permit certain cross-examination by Blount’s counsel of the principal witness for the Commonwealth, and (3) permitting allegedly improper…