Sentencing was scheduled Friday after a military jury at Fort Leavenworth convicted a Missouri soldier of a murder committed while he was home for his wife’s funeral.

Justin Cannon, 22, man Army specialist from Peculiar, Mo., was found guilty Thursday of murder without premeditation in the death of Michael Griggs, whose body was found in Truman Lake in August 2011.

He was charged with premeditated murder in Griggs’ death, but the jury found him guilty of the lesser charge.

Cannon was on his way to Fort Benning, Ga., in July 2011 when he learned his wife, Amber Cannon, had died in Grandview from an overdose.

Prosecutors say while he was home for her funeral, Justin Cannon hit Griggs in the head with a rock.