United States v. Firmin

OPINION OF THE COURT

LEWIS, Judge:

Consistent with his plea, appellant was convicted by general court-martial of absence without leave and wrongful possession of heroin in violation of Articles 86 and 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. §§ 886 and 934. His approved sentence consisted of a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for nine months and forfeiture of all pay and allowances for nine months.

The appellant assigns two errors as requiring this Court to take corrective action: viz, “the court-martial was improperly constituted under Article 25, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 825,…