United States v. Hodges

Opinion of the Court

Quinn, Chief Judge:

A telephone call from California to the accused in Germany, about July 1959, started a chain of events which led to his conviction by general court-martial in 1961, at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, of a charge of carnal knowledge of his fifteen-year-old daughter; incest and pandering, in violation of Articles 120 and 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC §§ 920 and 934, respectively. The convening authority .set aside and dismissed the pandering charge, but otherwise affirmed the findings of guilty and the sentence, which includes a…