United States v. Woods

Opinion of the Court

Duncan, Judge:

The question before us in this case is whether the appellant’s plea of guilty was improvidently entered.

Woods was brought to trial before military judge alone on one specification alleging premeditated murder, in violation of Article 118, Uniform Code of Military Justice [hereinafter cited as UCMJ], 10 USC § 918. He pleaded not guilty as charged but guilty of the lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter (Article 119, UCMJ, 10 USC § 919). His plea to the lesser offense was accepted by the military judge. When the military judge inquired whether the…