United States v. Pointer

Opinion of the Court

Quinn, Chief Judge:

Before a special court-martial convened at Long Beach, California, the accused pleaded guilty to an unauthorized absence for a period of forty-eight days. During the sentence proceedings he testified in his own behalf. He indicated he had departed the Naval station without authority to find his pregnant wife who had summarily left him. When his wife returned to California and gave birth to his child, he returned to the service. He maintained his marriage was not “working out” and that the Navy, in which he had served since 1965, was the “only thing . . .…