United States v. Burge

OPINION OF THE COURT

FERGUSON, Senior Judge:

The appellant was convicted, contrary to his pleas, by a military judge sitting as a special court-martial, of robbery and assault and was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for 6 months, and forfeitures of $100 per month for 6 months. Both the findings and the sentence have been approved at all levels below. We granted review to consider the admissibility of two items of evidence which served to link the appellant to the corpus delicti of the offenses charged. Believing that both were properly admitted under the…