United States v. Russell

Opinion of the Court

Kilday, Judge:

The accused was convicted by general court-martial of carnally knowing a female under the age of sixteen years and sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, total forfeitures, one year of confinement at hard labor, and reduction to E-1. The findings and sentence were approved by intermediate authorities and we granted accused’s petition for review to consider several assignments of error. In order to place these *78issues in proper perspective, a brief recitation of the evidence which formed the basis for our grant is in order.

The appellant, who had been on…