United States v. Jackson

Opinion of the Court

Paul W. Brosman, Judge:

Accused was convicted by Navy special court-martial1 of several offenses. However, the nature of these is unimportant here, since the issues raised for our consideration are entirely procedural and jurisdictional, and quite unrelated to the substantive charges in the case. The convictions were affirmed by a board of review in an opinion dated April 16, 1952. Notice of this fact was received by the accused on April 29. Thereafter, on May 20, counsel, who had represented him before the board of review, filed with the board a motion for reconsideration…