United States v. Ward

OPINION OF THE COURT

FULTON, Senior Judge:

The issue before us is whether appellant’s plea of guilty to a charge of unlawfully opening mail matter was improvident because of the existence of a defense of involuntary intoxication.

Appellant was charged with violating Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 934 (1976), by “unlawfully openpng] certain mail matter, to wit: letters addressed to certain other members of Company A, US Army Personnel Control Facility .. . Fort Dix, New Jersey, which said letters were then in the mail room of said unit before said letters were…