United States v. Bingham

Opinion of the Court

Quinn, Chief Judge:

Two of the three issues presented by this appeal from a special court-martial conviction were decided adversely to the accused in United States v Sayers, 20 USCMA 462, 43 CMR 302 (1971). The third deals with the sufficiency of the trial judge’s inquiry into the providence of the accused’s plea of guilty to four specifications of unauthorized absence, in violation of Article 86, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 886, as measured by the requirements of United States v *522Care, 18 USCMA 535, 40 CMR 247 (1969).

In Care, supra, at page 541, we indicated…