United States v. Johnson

OPINION OF THE COURT ON RECONSIDERATION

CARMICHAEL, Judge:

Pursuant to his pleas, appellant was found guilty by a military judge sitting as a special court-martial of two specifications *554of absence without leave and three specifications of dishonorable failure to pay-debts. His sentence to a bad-conduct discharge and reduction to Private E-l was approved by the convening authority.

Appellant contends and we agree that his pleas of guilty to the three specifications of failure to pay debts are improvident. We conclude that appellant’s comments at trial set up matters inconsistent with his pleas…