United States v. Buckner

GLADIS, Judge:

The accused was convicted contrary to his pleas at a special court-martial bench trial of possession, sale, and transfer of marijuana on three occasions and sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement at hard labor for 3 months, forfeiture of $175.00 per month for 3 months, and reduction to pay grade E-l. The supervisory authority probationally suspended the discharge. The accused contends that the court-martial lacked jurisdiction over the third possession, sale and transfer offenses because they occurred off-base. See United States v. McCarthy, 2 M.J. 26 (C.M.A.1976). We…