United States v. Yoakum

OPINION OF THE COURT

KUCERA, Judge:

The appellant, Staff Sergeant Yoakum, was tried and convicted by a military judge sitting as a special court-martial of transfer, sale, and possession of marihuana, in violation of Article 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 934 (1976). The convening authority approved the adjudged sentence of a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for three months, and reduction to the grade of Private E-l.

On appeal to this Court, the appellant assigns four errors; in his argument of sentence appropriateness, he asks that we set aside the punitive…