Case ID: cma_8/html/0373-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ROBERT E. Quinn, Chief Judge:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES, Appellee v JAMES W. POWELL, Jr., Private First Class, U. S. Army, Appellant
    8 USCMA 373, 24 CMR 183
    No. 9861
    Decided November 1, 1957
    
      
      Major Frank C. Stetson and First Lieutenant Robert J. Hearon, Jr., were on the brief for Appellant, Accused.
    
      Colonel J. L. Searles, Lieutenant Colonel John G. Lee, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. Newton, Captain Thomas J. Nichols, First Lieutenant Jay D. Fischer and First Lieutenant Richard W. Young were on the brief for Appellee, United States.
   Opinion of the Court

ROBERT E. Quinn, Chief Judge:

The circumstances here are substantially like those in United States v Jenkins, 8 USCMA 274, 24 CMR 84. For the reasons set out in that case, the decision of the board of review is reversed. The record of trial is returned to The Judge Advocate General of the Army for submission to a competent reviewing authority for further proceedings under Articles 61 and 64, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC §§ 861, 864.

Judge FERGUSON concurs.

Judge LatimeR dissents.