Ex parte Clark

GARVIN, District Judge.

On June 16, 1919, while attached to the Sixth Regiment of Marines with the American forces in Germany the relator deserted. He had enlisted with the United States Marine Corps on October 13, 1916, for a term of four years. Subsequent to his desertion, and shortly after his term of enlistment would have expired, the French authorities surrendered him to the American Army at Paris. He was then delivered by the military authorities to the custody of the commandant of the United States Navy Yard at New York, N. Y., and a naval court-martial was convened to try him for his…