United States v. Logemann

OPINION OF THE COURT

Darden, Chief Judge:

After the Navy denied his application for discharge as a conscientious objector, the accused decided he would serve no longer and disobeyed the order, of a superior noncommissioned officer to "go to work.” A special court-martial convicted the accused of this offense. After the conviction, a United States District Court granted the accused a writ of ha-beas corpus, holding: (1) that the accused’s discharge application had been denied without a basis in fact, and (2) that the Navy failed to follow the procedures outlined in its own regulations. Logemann…