United States v. Sullivan

*636OPINION OF THE COURT

COKER, Senior Judge:

In accordance with his pleas appellant was convicted of two unauthorized absences, disobedience of an officer, seven incidents of stealing, forgery of a check, and stealing mail. He now alleges that his plea to Charge V, stealing mail in violation of Article 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 934 (1982) [hereinafter UCMJ], was improvident, in that the envelope he stole was not in the mail and therefore was not mail matter at the time of theft. The court finds that the plea to Charge Y was provident.

A United States Treasury check had been…