United States v. Patrick

Opinion of the Court

GEORGE W. Latimer, Judge:

The accused was convicted by a general court-martial of a number of offenses in contravention of Article 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 934. Generally, they arose out of the following facts and circumstances: While assigned to duty in the personnel office of a Naval Air Station, the accused accepted money from persons in the Naval Service for failing to make appropriate entries in the service records or disposing of the original requests concerning the taking of leave. A sentence of bad-conduct discharge, total forfeitures,…