United States v. Anderson

Opinion of the Court

Hilda Y, Judge:

Accused was convicted by general court-martial on a charge of having committed a lascivious act upon a female under sixteen years of age, in violation of Article 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 934. He was sentenced to a' bad-conduct discharge, total forfeitures, and confinement at hard labor for three years. The convening authority reduced the confinement to one year but otherwise affirmed, and an Air Force board of review affirmed the findings and sentence as reduced.

We granted the accused’s petition for review to consider several…