United States v. Bell

Opinion of the Court

GEORGE W. Latimer, Judge:

This review is from a decision of a board of review which was rendered after proceedings had been taken to comply with our remand in the first appeal, United States v Bell, 6 USCMA *745392, 20 CMR 108. The issues in that appeal concerned an accused who had been convicted on a charge of rape but, who was shown to have become insane during, or prior to, the time his case was pending before the board of review. The decision of the board affirmed the court-martial’s findings and sentence, and we were confronted with the question of that reviewing…