United States v. Nickoson

Opinion of the Court

Kilday, Judge:

Convicted by general court-martial for striking his superior officer who was then in the execution of his office, in violation of Article 90, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 890, the appellant was sentenced to dishonorable discharge, total forfeitures, confinement at hard labor for two years, and reduction to the grade of E-l. Intermediate appellate authorities approved, with the board of review reducing the discharge to a bad-conduct discharge and the confinement to one year.

We granted the appellant’s petition for review to consider an allegation…