United States v. Petrie

OPINION OF THE COURT

FERGUSON, Senior Judge:

Before us the appellant challenges the legal sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction by a special court-martial, contrary to his pleas, for robbery of $178 from Private Tommie L. Benson.1 Specifically, the appellant urges that the evidence is legally deficient as to the requisite intent to steal, contending that it was his intent only to regain his own property which he believed he had a bona fide right of claim to recover from the named victim. We are not in accord with the appellant’s position.

The operative facts of record as found by…