United States v. Schultz

*313Opinion

Darden, Judge:

Contrary to his plea, the appellant was convicted by a general court-martial in Wurzburg, Germany, for the premeditated murder of Specialist Four Eobert G. Montpas. He was sentenced to a dishonorable discharge, total forfeitures, confinement at hard labor for life, and reduction to the grade of E-l. A board of review, however, reduced the finding to unpremeditated murder and the confinement period to forty-five years. The Court has the ease to consider two questions:

Whether Prosecution Exhibits 2 and 3 were improperly admitted into evidence.

Whether evidence that appellant…