PETERS, District Judge.
The petitioner, Harry T. Smith, was formerly a lieutenant (junior grade) in the United States Navy. On March 14, 1926, he deserted the navy and remained absent in desertion until he surrendered himself to the naval authorities on May 29, 1930. He was presently tried by a regularly constituted court-martial of the navy on charges of desertion and embezzlement, the latter being covered by a formal charge of "scandalous conduct, tending to the...
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