United States v. Buswell

OPINION OF THE COURT

Appellant was tried by a military judge sitting as a general court-martial. Pursuant to his pleas, he was convicted of nine specifications of wrongful appropriation by using his automatic teller machine (ATM) card to overdraw his savings account and of one specification of absence without leave (AWOL) in violation of Articles 121 and 86, Uniform Code of Military Justice [hereinafter cited as UCMJ], 10 U.S.C. §§ 921 and 886 (1982), respectively. Appellant was sentenced to a bad conduct discharge, confinement for five months, total forfeitures, and reduction to the grade of…