United States v. Schwed

Opinion of the Court

GEORGE W. LatimeR, Judge:

A general court-martial convicted this accused of the offense of larceny, in violation of Article 121, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 921. He was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, total forfeitures, and confinement at hard labor for nine months. Intermediate appellate agencies affirmed, and we granted his petition for review to consider whether the law officer’s instructions on. voluntariness as affecting the weight to be given to pretrial statements of the accused were correct.

In the course of interrogations conducted by two…