Supreme Court of the United States June 11, 1956, 701 (Reid v. Covert)

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Mr. Justice Clark

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Mrs. Clarice Covert was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a military court-martial which tried her at a United States Air Force base in England for the murder of her husband, an Air Force sergeant. She was brought to the United States and confined in the Federal Reformatory for Women, Alderson, West Virginia.