Case Name: UNITED STATES, Appellee v. WILLIAM F. ARNDT, Private First Class, U. S. Army, Appellant
Court: United States Court of Military Appeals
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1957-11-01
Citations: 8 C.M.A. 372
Docket Number: No. 9839
Parties: UNITED STATES, Appellee v WILLIAM F. ARNDT, Private First Class, U. S. Army, Appellant
Judges: 
Reporter: Decisions of the United States Court of Military Appeals
Volume: 8
Pages: 372–373

Head Matter:
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:
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.