United States v. Hartfield

Opinion of the Court

Fekguson, Judge:

Tried by general court-martial, the accused, upon his pleas of guilty, was convicted of a number of offenses in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and sentenced to bad-conduct discharge and reduction. Intermediate appellate authorities affirmed, and we granted accused’s petition upon the issue whether it was prejudicial error for the staff legal officer to fail to refer his pretrial request *270for the services of individual counsel to the convening authority for action.

From the record of trial, it appears that the accused requested a particular…