United States v. Wright

Opinion of the Court

The accused was convicted by general court-martial of damaging Government property through neglect in violation of Article 108, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 50 USC § 702, and of leaving his post in violation of Article 113, of. the Code, supra, 50 USC § 707. The convening authority approved the findings and sentence. The findings on the charge of damaging property were arrived at by exceptions and substitutions upon an original charge alleging willful damage. Declaring willfulness precluded negligence, the board of review set the findings as to this charge aside. It…