United States v. Terry Daniel Chatman

HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:

Terry Daniel Chatman, an inmate at the Kennedy Youth Center at Morgantown, West Virginia, was charged with unlawfully introducing a contraband article onto the grounds of that federal institution. More specifically, he was charged with bringing 24.3 grams of marijuana back with him from an afternoon furlough in Morgan-town. After a two-day jury trial, Chatman was convicted and sentenced to ten years imprisonment.

The present appeal primarily involves an attack upon 18 U.S.C. § 1791, the statute under which Chatman was convicted. That statute provides:

Whoever, contrary…