United States v. Anderson

The majority propose to overrule 30 years of military practice based on a concept that is not applicable to military law, in a case where the basic factual issue has been mooted, with a procedure which may only exacerbate the problem.

In United States v. Galloway, 2 U.S.C.M.A. 433, 9 C.M.R. 63 (1953), this Court enunciated the rule that correction of the record of trial by the parties having the responsibility to authenticate the record would be conclusive in the absence of a charge that the correction deliberately and intentionally falsified the record. In that ease, the record, as prepared…