United States v. Brown

Appellant was tried by a special court-martial, military judge alone, on four specifications of a Charge alleging unauthorized absence in violation of Article 86, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 886, and on four specifications of an Additional Charge laid under the same Article. In accordance with his pleas, appellant was convicted of the four specifications of the Charge and of specifications 2, 3 and 4 of the Additional Charge; specification 1 of the Additional Charge was withdrawn by the convening authority. The sentence, approved on review below, provides for confinement at hard labor for 75 days,…