United States v. Owens

ABERNATHY, Judge:

At general court-martial the military judge accepted appellant’s guilty pleas and found him guilty of premeditated murder under Article 118, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 918. Appellant’s sentence, as approved on review below in accordance with a pre-trial agreement, extends to confinement at hard labor for 50 years, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, reduction to pay grade E-l and a dishonorable discharge.

Appellant brings before this Court five assignments of error. As we find our determination of the first assignment to be dispositive of the second,…