Chandler v. Markley

STECKLER, Chief Judge.

This is an action for writ of habeas corpus. Petitioners, while soldiers assigned for duty with the 85th Infantry Regiment, 10th Infantry Division at Bamberg, Germany, were tried and convicted, along with five other soldiers, of the offense of rape, in violation of Article 120, Uniform Code of Military Justice (10 U.S.C. § 920), by a general court-martial convened at Wurzburg, Germany, in August of 1956. The joint rape was allegedly committed upon a fifteen year old German girl on July 9, 1956, near Bam-berg, some sixty miles from Wurzburg. Petitioners were sentenced to…