United States v. O'Briski

Opinion of the Court

Paul W. BROSMAN, Judge:

Appellants were convicted of mutiny and of participation in a riot, violations, respectively, of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Articles 94 and 116, 50 USC §§ 688 and 710. The convictions were approved by the convening authority, who reduced the periods of confinement adjudged, for reasons, and to an extent, which are immaterial here. Affirmance by a board of review followed, and this Court thereafter granted appellants’ petition for review, limited, however, to two questions which we shall state as we deal with each.

Happily, an extensive…