Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the court-martial that punished an officer who shot a Negro soldier by merely changing his rank from colonel to captain...
Colman's Court-Martial...
...court-martial of William T. Colman [TIME, Sept. 27] ... was an inexcusable travesty on justice and decency...
Sirs: The farce . . .. at Selfridge Field should direct public attention to a fundamental defect in the system whereby army "justice" is administered. . . . Aside from the other charges against Colonel Colman, it is difficult to suppose that, were the parties to the as sault reversed, a court-martial would have punished an attack with a deadly Weapon by a colored soldier on a colonel with less than death or life imprisonment...
...courts-martial sitting on the Selfridge Field cases worked down the defendants in rank, sentences rose in severity. The commanding colonel, William T. Colman got off lightest: demotion to captain (TIME, Sept. 27) for drunkenness and careless use of firearms in shooting a Negro private. A lieutenant colonel found guilty of drunkenness and fraudulent transfer of soldiers was ordered dismissed from the service. A major and a warrant officer also were sentenced to dismissal...