United States v. Wimberley

Opinion of the Court

Quinn, Chief Judge:

A general court-martial convened at Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany, convicted the accused of premeditated murder and sentenced him to death. The board of review affirmed the findings of guilty, but reduced the sentence to life imprisonment, dishonorable discharge, and forfeiture of all pay and allowances. The accused has brought the case to this Court on fifteen assignments of error.

Four of the claims of error deal with the accused’s mental condition. In different forms, two of these allege that the accused was prejudiced by his counsel’s failure to raise,…