United States v. Johnson

Opinion of the Court

Paul W. BrosMAN, Judge:

The accused, Johnson, was convicted by an Army general court-martial of fraudulent enlistment and of inflicting self-injury, in violation respectively of Articles 83 and 115 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 50 USC § 677 and § 709. The correctness of this action is questioned by the petition of the accused, who maintains that the law officer’s instructions prejudiced him in his defense of insanity. These instructions were in terms substantially identical with those considered by this Court in United States v. Biesak, 3 USCMA 714, 14 CMR 132,…