United States v. Overton

Opinion of the Court

ROBERT E. Quinn, Chief Judge:

In a common trial with two other prisoners in the post stockade, the accused entered a plea of guilty and was convicted of willful disobedience of a lawful order by a Captain P. G. Kelly “to go to work.” No evidence was offered in mitigation and he was sentenced to a dishonorable discharge, total forfeitures, and confinement at hard labor for five years. The convening authority reduced the confinement to two years but otherwise affirmed the sentence. A board of review also affirmed the conviction. Now the accused contends the court-martial did…