United States v. Green

Opinion of the Court

ROBERT E. Quinn, Chief Judge:

The accused stands convicted of an unauthorized absence and the wrongful and malicious publication of two separate statements disparaging the Marine Corps, in violation, respectively, of Articles 86 and 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC §§ 886, 934. His sentence, as reduced by the board of review, included a bad-conduct discharge and confinement at hard labor for six months.

On receiving a copy of the decision of the board of review on January 2, 1959, the accused filed a request for immediate execution of the bad-conduct discharge…