United States v. Falcon

OPINION OF THE COURT

FOREMAN, Judge:

Contrary to his pleas, the appellant was convicted of stealing a blank check, forging and uttering the check and then intentionally inflicting grievous bodily harm on his accomplice by striking him in the head several times with a rock, in violation of Articles 121, 123 and 128, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. §§ 921, 923 and 928 (1976). His approved sentence provides for a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for sixty days and reduction to the lowest enlisted grade.

The Evidence

On or about 4 December 1981 the appellant took a blank…