HIRONIMUS v. DURANT

No. 5713.

168 F.2d 288 (1948)

HIRONIMUS v. DURANT.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

May 4, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas R. Voorhis, Lieutenant Colonel, JAGD, of Washington, D. C. (Thayer Chapman, Major, JAGD, of Washington, D. C., Leslie E. Given, U. S. Atty., and A. Garnett Thompson, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Charlestown, W. Va., on the brief), for appellant.

Hugh H. Obear, of Washington, D. C. (John C. Morrison, of Charleston, W. Va., Orville H. Walburn, of Washington D. C., Jackson, Kelly, Morrison & Moxley, of Charleston W. Va., and Douglas, Obear & Campbell, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, SOPER, and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

On September 30, 1946, Captain Kathleen B. Nash Durant, Women's Army Corps, United States Army, was convicted by a general court martial of the larceny in Kronberg, Germany on November 6, 1945, of numerous articles of jewelry and other property belonging to Prince Wolfgang of Hesse and Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, which had been placed for safe keeping in Kronberg Castle and had come into her possession while she was the officer in charge...

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