United States v. Lowery

Opinion of the Court

Paul W. Brosman, Judge:

The accused in this case was convicted by general court-martial of breaking arrest and desertion, violations, respectively, of Articles 95 and 85, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 50 USC §§ 689 and 679. Approval of the findings by the convening authority and affirmance by a board of review left three issues which this Court has undertaken to consider at the behest of the appellant in his petition for review. For reasons hereafter noted, the board reduced the period of confinement.

II

We need not review the evidence bearing on desertion extensively.…