United States v. Staton

OPINION OF THE COURT

JACKSON, Senior Judge:

Contrary to his pleas, a panel of enlisted members sitting as a general court-martial convicted the appellant of eight specifications of assault consummated by a battery upon a child under 16 years of age, in violation of Article 128, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 928. The adjudged and approved sentence consists of a bad-conduct discharge, three years of confinement, and reduction to the grade of E-l. On appeal, the appellant asks this Court to set aside his findings and sentence.

The basis for his request is that he asserts: (1) the military judge erred in…