Case ID: cma_18/html/0590-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Darden, Judge:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES, Appellee v OTIS B. LITTLEJOHN, Airman Apprentice, U. S. Navy, Appellant
    18 USCMA 590, 40 CMR 302
    No. 22,238
    September 19, 1969
    
      Captain Frank A. Nelson, JAGC, USN, and Lieutenant Kenneth F. Ripple, JAGC, USNR, were on the pleadings for Appellant, Accused.
    
      Captain William S. Foss, USMCR, was on the pleadings for Appellee, United States.
   Opinion of the Court

Darden, Judge:

Absent supplementing evidence, the president’s pro forma inquiry does not satisfy us of the providency of appellant’s plea of guilty to the absences here charged. ■ Cf. United States v Care, 18 USCMA 535, 40 CMR 247. The decision of the board of review is reversed and the record of trial is returned to the Judge Advocate General of the Navy. A rehearing may be ordered.

Chief Judge Quinn and Judge Ferguson concur.