United States v. Downs

Opinion of the Court

Paul W. BROSMAN, Judge:

The essential probative facts of this case come to this". The appellant, Downs, enlisted in the United States Navy on December 7,1946, for a period of four years. The enlistment was, on December 6, 1950, involuntarily extended for one year — so that his term of obligated service was scheduled to expire on December 6, 1951. Sometime prior to October, 1951, accused met with an accident in line of duty in which he-sustained a broken leg, and, in October, 1951, he was transferred to the United States Navy Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia, for…