Case ID: cma_7/html/0313-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Robert E. Quinn, Chief Judge: Latimer, Judge", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES, Appellee v CHARLES E. COLLINS, Private E-2, U. S. Army, Appellant
    7 USCMA 313, 22 CMR 103
    No. 8488
    Decided August 24, 1956
    
      Lieutenant Colonel James M. Scott and First Lieutenant Philip L. Evans were on the brief for Appellant, Accused.
    
      Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. Newton, First Lieutenant Peter J. Hughes, and First Lieutenant Russell L. Brenneman, Jr., were on the brief for Ap-pellee, United States.
   Opinion of the Court

Robert E. Quinn, Chief Judge:

For the reasons set out in United States v Hawthorne, 7 USCMA 293, 22 CMR 83, the findings of guilty and the sentence in this case are set aside. The record of trial is returned to The Judge Advocate General of the Army for transmittal to the officer exercising summary court-martial jurisdiction over the accused for his consideration and action.

Judge Ferguson concurs.

Latimer, Judge

(concurring in the result) :

I concur in the result for the reasons set forth in my concurring opinion in United States v Hawthorne, 7 USCMA 293, 22 CMR 83.