United States v. Martin

Opinion of the Court

Homer Ferguson, Judge:

This appeal presents the narrow question of whether the staff judge advocate’s review was rendered inadequate by reason of the fact that it failed to apprise the convening authority of the results of two lie detector tests which were administered to the accused. For the reasons hereinafter stated, we hold that under the circumstances here present the review was not rendered inadequate by such omission.

In September 1956, the accused was convicted by a general court-martial *85convened at Fort Hood, Texas, of wrongful appropriation of a Government rifle…