United States v. Lovell

Opinion of the Court

ROBERT E. Quinn, Chief Judge:

A board of review affirmed the accused’s conviction on two specifications of unauthorized absence, in violation of Article 86, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 50 USC § 680, and his sentence to a dishonorable discharge (suspended), total forfeitures, and confinement at hard labor for one year. We granted review to consider the legal sufficiency of the evidence to support the findings of guilty on specification 2.

The specification in issue alleges that the accused absented himself without authorization from his organization for the period from…