United States v. Wilson

OPINION OF THE COURT

FULTON, Senior Judge:

The appellant was convicted by a general court-martial military judge of being an accessory after the fact to the wrongful possession and use of heroin on 27 June 1978 in violation of Article 78, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 878 (1976). The charge stemmed from appellant’s discovery of his roommate, Specialist Washington, on the floor of their room comatose (if not dead) from self-injected heroin. In a futile attempt to conceal Washington’s *999use of heroin, appellant removed from his prostrate friend’s arm a hypodermic needle and syringe,…