United States v. Leonard Overstreet, Glen E. Garner, and Dominic L. Warren

HARLINGTON WOOD, JR., Circuit Judge.

“Remember,” said Captain Courtney of the HMS Tigress, “As Mr. Bligh has said, ‘Discipline must be preserved on a merchantman as well as on a man-of-war, and mutiny and piracy suppressed.’ ”

The government argues today that discipline in a federal penal institution also must be preserved, and mutiny suppressed.

Counsel for the defendants, however, express their opinion that “ ‘mutiny’ is a common English word, which in ordinary usage only conjures up an image of putting Captain Bligh into the longboat, pointing him toward England, and then setting sail for…