United States v. Pryor

Opinion of the Court

Darden, Judge:

Convicted by a general court-martial of larceny and forgery, the appellant was sentenced to a dishonorable discharge, partial forfeitures, confinement at hard labor for three years, and reduction to the grade of Private E-l. We have limited review of the case to the question of whether the law officer judicially erred in failing to verbally instruct the court members on the mechanics of voting, specifically that voting on proposed sentences should begin with the lightest proposed and continue until a sentence is adjudged by the concurrence of the required…