Case ID: cma_8/html/0372-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LatimeR, Judge", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES, Appellee v WILLIAM F. ARNDT, Private First Class, U. S. Army, Appellant
    8 USCMA 372, 24 CMR 182
    
      No. 9839
    Decided November 1, 1957
    
      Major Frank G. Stetson argued the cause for Appellant, Accused. First Lieutenant Richard W. Young argued the cause for Appellee, United States. With him on the brief were Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. Newton and Captain Thomas J. Nichols.
    
   Opinion of the Court

ROBERT E. Quinn, Chief Judge:

Two of the three charges against the accused allege respectively that he wrongfully appropriated $50.00, the property of Private W. Taylor, and that he wrongfully abstracted $50.00 from a registered letter then in the Unit Mail Room, which was addressed to the said Private Taylor. He was convicted of both charges.

In instructing on the maximum sentence it could impose, the law officer advised the court-martial that it could aggregate the confinement for each of the above offenses. This instruction is erroneous. United States v Dicario, 8 USCMA 353, 24 CMR 163, decided this date.

Accordingly, the decision of the board of review as to the sentence is reversed. The record of trial is returned to The Judge Advocate General of the Army for submission to the board of review for reconsideration of the sentence.

Judge FeRguson concurs.

LatimeR, Judge

(dissenting):

My reasons for dissenting are set forth in United States v Dicario, 8 USCMA 353, 24 CMR 163, decided this day.