United States v. Myers

OPINION OF THE COURT

DeFORD, Judge:

The appellant, pursuant to his pleas, was tried and convicted by a military judge sitting as a general court-martial of desertion and absence without leave in violation of Articles 85 and 86, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) (10 U.S.C. §§ 885 and 886) and received the sentence set forth above.

On appeal appellant alleges, among others, that error was committed during his trial in that the trial counsel didn’t swear the substitute court reporter in the instant case nor did he announce that she had been previously sworn, and further, that the record of…