Case ID: cma_8/html/0725-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HomeR FeRguson, Judge: LatimeR, Judge", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES, Appellee v JIM H. SHAW, Private E-1, U. S. Army, Appellant
    8 USCMA 725, 25 CMR 229
    No. 10,965
    Decided February 21, 1958
    
      Major Frank C. Stetson was on the brief for Appellant, Accused. Lieutenant Colonel John G. Lee and First Lieutenant John E. Riecker were on the brief for Appellee, United States.
   Opinion of the Court

HomeR FeRguson, Judge:

The issues raised in this appeal are precisely the same as those found in United States v Finney, 8 USCMA 724, 25 CMR 228, decided this date. Our holding in that case is dispositive of the issues presented here.

The decision of the board of review is reversed. The record of trial is returned to The Judge Advocate General of the Army for reference to á board of review. The board, in its discretion, may approve the lesser offense of absence without leave and reassess the sentence, or it may order a rehearing on the desertion charge.

Chief Judge Quinn concurs.

LatimeR, Judge

(concurring in part and dissenting in part):

I concur in part and dissent in part for the reasons set forth in my separate opinion in United States v Finney, 8 USCMA 724, 25 CMR 228.