United States v. Beckman

OPINION OF THE COURT

FULTON, Senior Judge:

The appellant, stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, pleaded guilty to and was convicted of selling marijuana “at Montgomery County, Tennessee,” which bounds the southeast portion of the post. The military judge, sitting as a special court-martial, sentenced him to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for four months, forfeiture of $240.00 pay per month for four months, and reduction to the grade of Private E—1. The convening authority approved the sentence.

On appeal as well as at the trial, appellant contests the court’s jurisdiction…