Case ID: cma_7/html/0691-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES, Appellee v EARL J. BOETTCHER, Jr., Staff Sergeant, U. S. Air Force, Appellant
    7 USCMA 691, 23 CMR 155
    No. 9474
    Decided April 5, 1957
    
      Lieutenant Colonel Stanley S. Butt and Captain John H. Leonard were on the brief for Appellant, Accused.
    
      Lieutenant Colonel Francis P. Murray and Captain Lawrence J. Gross were on the brief for Appellee, United States.
   Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam:

A general court-martial convicted the accused of a number of offenses, in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and sentenced him to a dishonorable discharge, total forfeitures, and confinement at hard labor for two years. Intermediate appellate authorities affirmed. The allegations of the specification of Charge II in this case are virtually the same as those which, in United States v Lightfoot, 7 USCMA 686, 23 CMR 150, we held were legally insufficient to state an offense under the Uniform Code. Accordingly, the findings of guilty of the Charge are set aside, and the Charge is ordered dismissed. The record of trial is returned to The Judge Advocate General of the Air Force for resubmission to the board of review for the determination of an appropriate sentence on the basis of the remaining findings of guilty.