United States v. Jones

*178Opinion of the Court

Kilday, Judge:

The accused was tried and convicted by general court-martial for larceny of property and for housebreaking with intent to commit larceny under Articles 121 and 130, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC §§ 921 and 930, respectively. He was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for two months, and reduction to airman basic. Intermediate appellate authorities approved the findings and sentence.

We granted the accused’s petition for review to consider whether:

The law officer erred in instructing the court that there was “no such thing…