In re Langan

Citations

• 123 F. 132
• 1903 U.S. App. LEXIS 4883

Syllabus

<p>1. Courts-Martial—Legality of Sentence—Imprisonment at Hard Labor.</p> <p>The word “imprisonment,” as used in the sixtieth article of war [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 956], was not employed in a technical sense to signify imprisonment at a military post without hard labor, but has a broader signification, and empowers a court-martial to sentence a person in the military service to imprisonment at hard labor, or to a penitentiary where hard labor is a part of the discipline, where the offense of which he is convicted is one for which the civil tribunals cpuld impose a like sentence.</p>