United States v. Petrowske

Opinion of the Court

Quinn, Chief Judge:

The question before us is whether the record of trial supports the accused’s conviction for involuntary manslaughter, in violation of Article 119, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 919.

Appellate defense counsel have singled out certain weaknesses in the Government’s trial proof, as distinguished from the case established in the Article 32 investigation; but to say that the Government had important evidence which it unaccountably failed to present does not necessarily detract from the sufficiency of the case it made out against the accused at…