Military Instructors Manual by Oliver Schoonmaker;James P. Cole
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arrest, and other persons into arrest or confinement.
Whosoever, being so ordered: (1) Refuses to obey. (2) Draws a weapon. (3) Otherwise threatens or does violence shall be punished." This is one instance (except a.w., 67, mutiny) where even a corporal might order a general into arrest. This is the only instance: (1) Where anyone other than a commissioned officer can put an officer under arrest. (2) Where anyone other than an officer can order, arrest or confinement of a soldier except on power given by C.O. ARTICLE 69. BREAKING ARREST: Punishment: (Officer) Dismissal, (Soldier) Court-martial. "Any officer charged with crime shall be placed in arrest by C.O.... in exceptional cases ... confined." "A soldier charged with crime ... shall be placed in confinement ... when charged with minor offense placed in arrest." "Any person placed in arrest ... shall be restricted to barracks, quarters, tent, unless limits are enlarged by proper authority." "An officer or any other person breaking his arrest or who escapes from confinement before being set at liberty by proper authority shall be punished by...." |
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