United States v. Durham

Opinion of the Court

Pursuant to his pleas, appellant was convicted by a special court-martial, military judge alone, of larceny, in violation of Article 121, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 921. The military judge sentenced appellant to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement for 45 days, and forfeiture of $367.00 pay. The convening authority approved the sentence, but the supervisory authority reduced the confinement to 24 days. The Court of Military Review affirmed. We granted review to consider whether the larceny specification was fatally defective because it failed to identify…