72. Alternative punishments awardable by court-martial. -Subject to the provisions of this Act, a court-martial may, on convicting a person subject to this Act of any of the offences specified in Sees. 34 to 68 inclusive, awards either the particular punishment with which the offence is stated in the said sections to be punishable, or in lieu thereof, any one of the punishments lower in the scale set out in Sec. 71, regard being had to the nature and degree of the offence. |