United States v. McPhail

*51Opinion of the Court

Robert E. Quinn, Chief Judge:

Convicted by a general court-martial of two specifications of larceny and two specifications of burglary, in violation, respectively, of Articles 121 and 129, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC §§ 921, 929, the accused appealed to this Court for review. The question before us is the correctness of the law officer’s instructions on the effect of evidence of good character.

The prosecution established that on two occasions, on different days and at different places, an unidentified person entered the private quarters of military personnel…