United States v. Hartsook

Opinion of the Court

Kilday, Judge:

The accused was convicted of larceny of $1,000.00, in violation of Article 121, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 921, and sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, total forfeitures, and confinement at hard labor for one year, and reduction to the grade of Private E-l. Intermediate appellate authorities approved and affirmed the findings and sentence without change.1 We granted his petition for review to consider the following issue:

Whether the officer who authorized the search was sufficiently informed of “the things to be seized” as required by law.

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