United States v. Beasley

Opinion of the Court

Quinn, Chief Judge:

The accused’s claim of error in regard to the acceptance of his plea of guilty to several offenses in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice is without merit for the reasons specified in our opinion in United States v Palos, 20 USCMA 104, 42 CMR 296, decided this date.

During sentence proceedings, the judge received evidence of the accused’s record of punishment under Article 15, Code, supra, 10 USC § 815. Since the offense charged was committed before the effective date of the 1969 Manual for Courts-Martial, which authorized consideration of…