United States v. Brown

Opinion of the Court

Kilday, Judge:

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Appellant Brown, with whom we are concerned in the case at bar, is married and the father of three children. He is a sergeant and, at the time of trial, had served in the Army some nineteen years and seven months, including duty in the Aleutian Islands and in the Pacific during World War II, and subsequent service in Korea. Brown has no prior convictions and there is no evidence of trouble in civilian life before his enlistment; his record is clean.

His actions on the night in question, however, led to his trial by a general court-martial. Appellant pleaded…