United States v. Simmons

*106Opinion of the Court

ROBERT E. Quinn, Chief Judge:

The accused was convicted by general court-martial1 at the U. S. Naval Air Station, Memphis, Tennessee, of desertion in violation of Article 85 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 50 USC § 679. He was sentenced to' a bad-conduct discharge, total forfeiture of pay, and confinement for eighteen months. The convening authority approved only so much of the finding as found the accused guilty of absence without leave and reduced the period of confinement and forfeitures to six months, approving the bad-conduct discharge. A Navy board of review…