United States v. Ballard

BAUM, Chief Judge:

Appellant was tried by a general court-martial consisting of officer and enlisted members. He pled not guilty to one specification of assault with intent to commit murder and one specification of solicitation to commit obstruction of justice in violation of Article 134, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 934. The court acquitted him of both of the charged offenses, but convicted him of assault with a dangerous weapon in violation of Article 128, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 928, as a lesser included offense of assault with intent to commit murder. Pursuant to Appellant’s pleas of guilty, he was also…