United States v. Ward

OPINION OF THE COURT

Cook, Judge:

Pursuant to his informed plea, the accused was found guilty of being absent without authority for over 2 years, in violation of Article 86, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 886. The military judge, sitting alone as a special court-martial, imposed a bad-conduct discharge and reduction to the lowest grade with a recommendation that the sentence be suspended. In approving the findings and sentence, the convening authority did follow the recommendation.

Upon petition to this Court, there was assigned as an issue a claim that the court-martial which tried…