Confirmation—When required.
Article 47
ART. 47. Confirmation—When required.—In addition to the approval required lay article forty-five, confirmation by the President is required in the following cases before the sentence of a court-martial is carried into execution, namely: Any sentence respecting a general officer; Any sentence extending to the dismissal of an officer, except that in time of .war a sentence extending to the dismissal of an officer below the grade of "brigadier general may be carried into execution upon confirmation by the commanding general of the Army in the field. Any sentence extending to the suspension or dismissal of a cadet, flying cadet, probationary third lieutenant, and Any sentence of death, except in the cases of person's convicted in time of war, of murder, mutiny, desertion, or as spies, and in such excepted cases a sentence of death may be carried into execution, subject to the provisions of article 50, upon confirmation by the commanding general of the Army in the field. When the authority competent to confirm the sentence has already acted as the approving authority no additional confirmation by him is necessary.