United States v. Gibson

Opinion of the Court

COOK, Judge:

Pursuant to his pleas, the accused was convicted by general court-martial, military judge alone, of four specifications of absence without leave and two specifications of missing movement through design, in violation of Articles 86 and 87, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. §§ 886 and 887, respectively. The military judge sentenced appellant to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for 6 months, and forfeiture of $350.00 pay per month for 6 months. In accord with a pretrial agreement and the recommendations of the military judge, the…