It won't be enough to clear you of the charge as far as the action of the court goes.

We must do everything in our power to remove the slightest taint from your name, or your position with your brother cadets will never be quite the same again." "I know that full well, sir," Cadet Prescott replied with feeling.
"Though the court-martial acquit me, if there lingers any belief among the members of the cadet corps that I was really guilty, then the taint would not only hang over me here, but all through my subsequent career in the Army.

It is an actual, all-around verdict of 'not guilty, and couldn't be,' that I crave sir." "You may depend upon me, Mr.Prescott, to do all in my power for you," promised Lieutenant Topham..