United States ex rel. Klinger v. Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks

JAMES M. CARTER, District Judge.

This case raises the question of the right of the military to try in a military court in a foreign country, a civilian employee of the military.

*192The prisoner, Louis B, Varney, was employed as a Department of the Army civilian pn 26 February 1952, Thereafter he was transported by the Army to Japan, where' he arrived on 4 March 1952. He was assigned upon arrival to the Engineer Section of the Yokohama Engineer Depot, Maintenance Division, APO 503. His status as a Department of the Army civilian employee accompanying. the Army in Japan was not changed, at least…