United States v. Richards

Opinion of the Court

George W. Latimer, Judge:

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The event preceding this tragic affair commenced at approximately 6:00 p.m. on the night of August 18, 1957, at an Enlisted Men’s Club in Korea. Between that hour and 10:30 p.m., *477the accused had consumed the contents of not more than four bottles of beer. At that time, he left the Club and returned to his barracks where he changed his uniform to a set of fatigue clothing. He informed one of his soldier friends that he was going to kill someone and then departed from the barracks. He proceeded from there to a guard shack near the gate of his unit…