TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the denial of habeas corpus to a former member of the Armed Forces. Appellant was charged and tried in 1959 for desertion from the Army in 1953. He contends that he could not validly be tried because, unless the offense of desertion occurred "in time of war", the prosecution would be barred after three years; and he maintains that, although his desertion occurred prior to the Korean armistice, the United States was not...
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