United States v. Arias

*437Opinion of the Court

COOK, Judge:

Convicted of soliciting and effecting a sodomous act with a 12-year-old girl, the accused seeks reversal of the findings of guilty on four assignments of error.

Two of the accused’s contentions deal with the evidence. The first is that, as a matter of law, the evidence is insufficient to support the findings of guilty by the trial judge, sitting as a general court-martial without court members. The second is that the testimony of the girl falls within the precept that “a conviction cannot be based upon uncorroborated testimony given by . [the] victim in a trial…