United States v. Cook

*519Opinion of the Court

On the plea of guilty before a general court-martial at Fort Richardson, Alaska, the accused was convicted of two specifications of assault with a means likely to produce grievous bodily harm, in violation of Article 128, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 928. He was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, total forfeitures, reduction to recruit, and confinement at hard labor for two years. The convening authority approved the findings of guilty, but in accordance with a pretrial agreement with the accused, modified the sentence by reducing the period of confinement…