RA 516 Section 10

Section 10

SEC. 10. Article sixteen of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "ART. 16. Persons in the military service, how triable.- Officers shall be triable by general and special courts-martial, and in no case shall an officer, when it can be avoided, be tried by officers inferior to him in rank. No enlisted person may sit as a member of a court-martial for the trial of another enlisted person or trainee who is assigned to the same company."

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