Walker v. Commanding Officer

Opinion of the Court

DaRden, Judge:

A special court-martial aboard the U. S. S. YORKTOWN convicted the petitioner of assault upon another sailor and disrespect toward a superior petty officer. The court sentenced him to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for four months, forfeiture of $90.00 per month for four months, and a reduction to pay grade E-l. The date of the trial was August 26, 1969. On that same date his counsel filed a *249“Motion to Hold Execution of Sentence” with the convening authority. The basis for this motion was “ [s] ubstantial legal questions were raised which…