Becker v. Webster

L. HAND, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order discharging a writ of habeas corpus granted to review the conviction of the relator by a general court-martial. The respondent, General Webster, filed a return to the writ, and the judge heard the case upon the record of the trial before the court-martial at Wiesbaden, Germany, in March, 1948. The conviction was upon three charges: (1) Selling whisky to soldiers; (2) causing “’travel orders to be falsely made” by which enlisted men were authorized to go to Holland to get the whisky; (3) uttering the same forged “travel orders.” The only…