United States v. Holcomb

Opinion of the Court

Darden, Judge:

In this case the object of the Court’s concern is with the closing sentence argument of defense counsel and with whether this argument conceded too much by its statement that the accused “doesn’t deserve another chance.”

A general court-martial found the appellant guilty of making and uttering eight worthless checks, two specifications of absence without leave, wrongfully wearing sergeant E-5 stripes, and eleven specifications of forgery. A sentence of dishonorable discharge, total forfeitures, and confinement at hard *310labor for two years is unchanged after…