Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Toth v. Quarles
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 9, 1955No. 3PublishedCited by 550 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
After serving with the United States Air Force in Korea, Robert W. Toth was honorably discharged. He returned to his home in Pittsburgh and went to work in a steel plant. Five months later he was arrested by military authorities on charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder while an airman in Korea.1 At the time of arrest he had no relationship of any kind with the military. He was taken to Korea to stand trial before a court-martial under authority of a 1950 Act of Congress.2 The Court of Appeals sustained the Act, rejecting the contention that civilian ex-servicemen like Toth could…
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