United States v. Elliott

EDWARDS, Judge:

Appellant was tried before a special court-martial consisting of members. Upon his pleas of guilty he was found guilty and sentenced to 6 months confinement at hard labor, forfeiture of $200 per month for 6 *741months, reduction to pay grade E-l, and discharge from the Marine Corps with a bad-conduct discharge. The convening authority approved the sentence but suspended all confinement and the bad-conduct discharge for one year. The supervisory authority approved the sentence as approved and partially suspended by the convening authority.

While going over the provisions of the…