United States v. Craney

OPINION OF THE COURT

Cook, Judge:

On pleas of guilty, a military judge, sitting as a general court-martial without court members, convicted the accused of two specifications of communicating a threat and two charges of assault and battery, in violation of Articles 134 and 128, Uniform Code of Military Justice, respectively, 10 USC §§ 934 and 928. We granted review to consider whether the pleas of guilty to three of the four offenses should have been accepted.

The form of the specifications indicated the accused had himself committed the offenses, but the judge’s inquiry into the accused’s…