United States v. McMahon

DECISION

EARLY, Chief Judge:

Tried by general court-martial, military judge alone, the accused was convicted, consonant with his pleas, of sodomy with a child under the age of 16 years, in violation of Article 125, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 925. The approved sentence extends to a dishonorable discharge, confinement at hard labor for eight months and reduction to the grade of E-4.

In the one assignment meriting our attention, the accused contends that:

The Military Judge erred by not ordering the convening authority to have the accused examined by a sanity board composed of at…