United States v. Thomas

OPINION OF THE COURT

GARN, Judge:

The appellant was convicted by the members of a general court-martial of wrongfully possessing and wrongfully using heroin in violation of Article 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 934. He was sentenced to a dishonorable discharge, confinement at hard labor for one year, forfeiture of four hundred dollars pay per month for one year, and reduction to the grade of Private E-1.

During the late evening hours of the day before payday, two military police agents, Barham and Flahive, were engaged in a surveillance operation in the Mainz, Germany train…