United States v. Holsey

Opinion of the Court

GEORGE W. LatimeR, Judge:

The accused was tried by general court-martial upon a charge of unpremeditated murder, the specification thereunder alleging that he murdered Private Walter I. Gaskin by stabbing him with a knife. He was found guilty as charged and sentenced to a dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances and confinement at hard labor for fifty years. The convening authority approved the findings and sentence. The board of review in the office of The Judge Advocate General of the Army, one member dissenting, affirmed but reduced the period of…