Digest of Opinions: The Judge Advocates General of the Armed Forces, Volume 6

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Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1956 - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Contains digests of selected opinions and decisions of the Judge Advocates General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, the General Counsel of the Treasury Department and the Boards of Review ... the United States Court of Military Appeals; other governmental departments and agencies; and Federal and State courts.

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Page 118 - Marked attention and unusual hospitality on the part of a lawyer to a Judge, uncalled for by the personal relations of the parties, subject both the Judge and the lawyer to misconstructions of motive and should be avoided. A lawyer should not communicate or argue privately with the Judge as to the merits of a pending cause, and he deserves rebuke and denunciation for any device or attempt to gain from a Judge special personal consideration or favor.
Page 198 - Commanders' duties of example and correction. All commanding officers and others in authority in the naval service are required to show in themselves a good example of virtue, honor, patriotism, and subordination; to be vigilant In Inspecting the conduct of all persons who are placed under their command; to guard against and suppress all dissolute and Immoral practices...
Page 484 - On 19 he was sentenced to dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement at hard labor for 4 years. The convening authority approved the sentence, forwarded the record of trial to the Judge Advocate General of the and directed that pending completion of appellate review...
Page 109 - ... not less than the minimum wages as determined by the Secretary of Labor to be the prevailing minimum wages for persons employed on similar work or in the particular or similar industries or groups of industries currently operating in the locality in which the materials, supplies, articles, or equipment are to be manufactured or furnished under said contract...
Page 135 - This Court has never departed from the rule announced in Ker v. Illinois, 119 US 436, 444, 7 S.Ct. 225, 229, 30 L.Ed. 421, that the power of a court to try a person for crime is not impaired by the fact that he had been brought within the court's jurisdiction by reason of a 'forcible abduction.
Page 131 - States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States...
Page 319 - St. 146, nevertheless it seems to me there was abundant evidence to raise a reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the accused...
Page 46 - Pending the making of such a proposal and affirmative action thereon, the United States will have the right to exercise all and any powers of administration, legislation and jurisdiction over the territory and inhabitants of these islands, including their territorial waters.
Page 107 - No contract or order, or any interest therein, shall be transferred by the party to whom such contract or Opinion of the Court. order is given to any other party, and any such transfer shall cause the annulment of the contract or order transferred, so far as the United States are concerned.
Page 534 - ... killing without premeditation is also murder when the person had either an intent to kill or an intent to inflict great bodily harm. Great bodily harm refers to -serious injuries; it does not include minor injuries such as a black eye or a bloody nose (see 207b). A person is presumed to have intended the natural and probable consequences of an act purposely .done by him.

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