Brown v. Commonwealth

Harry William Brown was tried by a jury which found him guilty of distributing heroin and fixed his punishment at confinement for five years in the State Penitentiary and payment of a $2,500 fine. To the judgment order entered on the verdict we granted Brown a writ of error limited to the question whether the trial court erred in granting Instruction 6, 1 which permitted the jury to find Brown guilty of a higher offense than accommodation distribution.

Brown was charged with distribution of heroin to George Lincoln Hopkins, Jr., on July 26, 1973, in violation of Code § 54-524.101:1, as…