United States v. Crawshaw

DECISION

KASTL, Judge:

The accused stands convicted of a three-day absence without leave and three specifications of larceny, violations of Articles 86 and 121, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. §§ 886, 921. His approved sentence is a bad conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for two years, total forfeitures, and reduction to the lowest enlisted grade.

At trial, the military judge found the larcenies of a wallet and check separate, for sentencing purposes, from larceny of the automobile. He instructed the members that the maximum punishment included confinement at hard labor for…