United States v. Johnson

Opinion of the Court

Quinn, Chief Judge:

The question presented by this appeal concerns the amount of forfeitures imposed by the court-martial.

A special court-martial convened at Cubi Point, Republic of the Philippines, convicted the accused of a number of offenses in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The president instructed the court members that the maximum punishment was a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for six months, reduction in rate, and forfeiture of two-thirds pay per month for six months. After deliberating for seventeen minutes the court returned…