United States v. Richardson

Opinion of the Court

Darden, Chief Judge:

Appellate authorities have approved, without modification, a special court-martial’s finding that the appellant was guilty of a charge involving two unauthorized absences and its sentence of a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for three months, and forfeiture of $83 per month for the same period. We consider two issues that the Court of Military Review also considered. They are whether (1) the bad-conduct discharge is supported by a verbatim record, and (2) the military judge prejudicially erred by advising the accused in open court of…