Naval Digest: Containing Digests of Selected Decisions of the Secretary of the Navy and Opinions of the Judge Advocate-General of the Navy, 1916 |
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35 Stat Absence from station accused acquittal action adjudged alleged appointment approved Army arrest assault Attorney Atty August 29 Bureau of Navigation CHARGES AND SPECIFICATIONS civil authorities civil courts clemency commanding officer commission confinement convening authority counsel court of inquiry court-martial orders criminal CRITICISM OF COURTS-MARTIAL deck court desertion dishonorable discharge DRUNKENNESS DUTY AND MISCONDUCT evidence fact File finding Forms of Procedure FRAUDULENT ENLISTMENT G. C. M. Rec Government intent joinder judge advocate July June June 29 jurisdiction line of duty manslaughter Marine Corps ment MIDSHIPMEN Naval Academy naval court-martial NAVAL EXAMINING BOARDS Naval Militia naval service Navigation Navy Department Navy Regulations numbers oath offense person plea President promotion punishment question record of proceedings RETIRED OFFICERS revision Same-A Same-The Secretary sentence Sept station and duty statute summary court-martial testimony trial United United States Navy warrant officer witness
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Page 524 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers and property appertaining to it.
Page 556 - The President, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service. The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the divine will demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity.
Page 288 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 596 - ... unless, by reason of having absented himself, or of some other manifest impediment, he shall not have been amenable to justice within that period.
Page 449 - That hereafter no officer or enlisted man in active service who shall be absent from duty on account of disease resulting from his own intemperate use of drugs or alcoholic liquors or other misconduct...
Page 443 - If granted before conviction, it prevents any of the penalties and disabilities consequent upon conviction from attaching ; if granted after conviction, it removes the penalties and disabilities, and restores him to all his civil rights; it makes him, as it were, a new man, and gives him a new credit and capacity.
Page 427 - an employment" it does not follow that every employment is an office. A man may be employed under a contract, express or implied, to do an act, or perform a service, without becoming an officer. But if...
Page 370 - Section 1621 declares that the Marine Corps shall at all times be subject to the laws and regulations established for the government of the navy, except when detached for service with the army by order of the President, and, when so detached, shall be subject to the rules and articles of war prescribed for the government of the army.
Page 350 - It is of two kinds: 1. Voluntary — upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion. 2. Involuntary — in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to felony; or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection.
Page 38 - An assault is any attempt or offer, with force or violence, to do a corporal hurt to another...