United States v. Merriweather

OPINION OF THE COURT

FELDER, Judge:

Appellant was tried by a general court-martial composed of officer members. Contrary to her plea, she was convicted, as charged, of intentionally inflicting grievous bodily harm upon her infant son. She was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for 12 months, and reduction to the grade of Private E-l.

On 30 October 1983, appellant brought her two year and ten month old son to the emergency department of Madigan Army Medical Center. The child was unconscious and unresponsive to painful stimuli. He was in a poor state of physical…