United States v. Whitley

Opinion of the Court

GEORGE W. LatimeR, Judge:

This case requires us to consider an error which should no longer be found in military records. It grows out of *788an order by the convening authority adding a senior member to a special court-martial which was in the process of hearing the case of this accused. Contrary to his plea of not guilty to a charge of larceny, the accused was found guilty. He was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, forfeiture of $50.00 per month for three months, and confinement at hard labor for the same period of time. The convening authority approved only so much of the…