United States v. Hunter

Opinion of the Court

GEORGE W. Latimer, Judge:

This case is before the Court pursuant to Article 67(b)(1), Uniform Code of Military Justice (mandatory appeal), 50 USC § 654, requiring that we review all cases in which the sentence, as affirmed by a board of review, imposes the death penalty.

On April 12, 1951, at about 12 o’clock midnight, a hatless negro soldier, dressed in fatigue clothes, tried to force entrance into a house in Towhari, Korea, occupied by An Sun Yea, her husband, her one-year-old baby, and another Korean woman, Lee Yong Sun, After failing in his attempt to gain entrance to…