Word: martial
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...buys a Captain's uniform, storms into Koepenick, and seizes the Town Hall. Always jibing at stuffy authoritarian, the ersatz Captain imprisons even Mayor Obermculler, a stout buffoon played by Max Guelstorff. The mayor knows nothing of his offense, but there can be no injustice under Germany's martial law and order. He salutes and plods to jail...
...Quonset-hut courtroom in Seoul last week, an eight-man court-martial meted out punishment: two years in prison and dismissal from the service for 2nd Lieut. James D. Goff. Goff smiled in relief: he had had good reason to expect a much heavier sentence. Last December, with three Negro enlisted men, he had entered a Korean's house, presumably looking for stolen property, and had pistol-whipped to death an innocent Korean Presbyterian minister who protested...
...Army did little about the case until church groups in the U.S. kicked up a ruckus (TIME, Feb. 2). Goff was first charged with "unpremeditated murder," but because the court-martial could not decide which man had struck the fatal blow, Goff was convicted on the charge of "aggravated assault." Even with the lighter charge, he could have drawn a prison term of five years, but the court was lenient. Why did Goff get off so lightly? "That information," said a legal officer, "is in the bosom of the court...
...your Jan. 19 issue, you state that the court-martial which tried Dorothy Krueger Smith for the murder of her husband found her guilty of first-degree murder by six votes to three and sentenced her to life imprisonment; that "a unanimous verdict of guilty would have made the death sentence mandatory." This is not correct. The only offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice that requires a mandatory death sentence is spying in time of war . . . and the only offense requiring a unanimous finding of guilty is that for which the death penalty is mandatory, namely, spying...
...TIME] could know that the actual vote was six to three ... is a mystery . . since the Manual for Courts Martial . , . states: "Only the required percentage of members who concurred in findings of guilty shall be announced...