2008 edition - Fort Sam Houston - U.S. Army

elevant to mistake of fact. A mistaken belief that the other
person consented must be that which a reasonably careful, ordinary,
prudent, sober adult would have had under the circumstances
at the time of the offense.
(16) Affirmative defense. The term ‘affirmative defense’ means
any special defense which, although not denying that the accused
committed the objective acts constituting the offense charged,
denies, wholly, or partially, criminal responsibility for those acts.
The accused has the burden of proving the affirmative defense by
a preponderance of evidence. After the defense meets this burden,
the prosecution shall have the burden of proving beyond a reasonable
doubt that the affirmative defense did not exist.
§ 920a. Art. 120a. Stalking
(a) Any person subject to this section—
(1) who wrongfully engages in a course of conduct directed at
a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear
death or bodily harm, including sexual assault, to himself or
herself or a member of his or her immediate family;
(2) who has knowledge, or should have knowledge, that the
specific person will be placed in reasonable fear of death or
bodily harm, including sexual assault, to himself or herself or a
member of his or her immediate family; and
(3) whose acts induce reasonable fear in the specific person of
death or bodily harm, including sexual assault, to himself or
herself or to a member of his or her immediate family; is guilty
of stalking and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
(b) In this section:
(1) The term ‘course of conduct’ means—
(A) a repeated maintenance of visual or physical proximity
to a specific person; or
(B) a repeated conveyance of verbal threat, written threats,
or threats implied by conduct, or a combination of such threats,
directed at or toward a specific person.
(2) The term ‘repeated’, with respect to conduct, means two or
more occasions of such conduct;
(3) The term ‘immediate family’, in the case of a specific
person, means a spouse, parent, child, or sibling of the person, or
any other family member, relative, or intimate partner of the
person who regularly resides in the household of the person or
who within the six months preceding the commencement of the
c o u r s e o f c o n d u c t r e g u l a r l y r e s i d e d i n t h e h o u s e h o l d o f t h e
person.
§ 921. Art. 121. Larceny and wrongful
appropriation
(a) Any person subject to this chapter who wrongfully takes,
obtains, or withholds, by any means, from the possession of the
owner or of any other person any money, personal property, or
article of value of any kind—
(1) with intent permanently to deprive or defraud another person
of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate it to his
own use or the use of any person other than the owner, steals that
property and is guilty of larceny; or
(2) with intent temporarily to deprive or defraud another person
of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate it to his
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§ 924. Art. 124.(1)
own use or the use of any person other than the owner, is guilty
of wrongful appropriation.
(b) Any person found guilty of larceny or wrongful appropriation
shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
§ 922. Art. 122. Robbery
Any person subject to this chapter who with intent to steal
takes anything of value from the person or in the presence of
another, against his will, by means of force or violence or fear of
immediate or future injury to his person or property or to the
person or property of a relative or member of his family or of
anyone in his company at the time of the robbery, is guilty of
robbery and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
§ 923. Art. 123. Forgery
A n y p e r s o n s u b j e c t t o t h i s c h a p t e r w h o , w i t h i n t e n t t o
defraud—
(1) falsely makes or alters any signature, to, or any part of, any
writing which would, if genuine, apparently impose a legal liability
on another or change his legal right or liability to his prejudice;
or
(2) utters, offers, issues, or transfers such a writing, known by
him to be so made or altered;
is guilty of forgery and shall be punished as a court-martial may
direct.
§ 923a. Art. 123a. Making, drawing, or uttering
check, draft, or order without sufficient funds
Any person subject to this chapter who—
(1) for the procurement of any article or thing of value, with
intent to defraud; or
(2) for the payment of any past due obligation, or for any other
purpose, with intent to deceive;
makes, draws, utters, or delivers any check, draft, or order for the
payment of money upon any bank or other depository, knowing at
the time that the maker or drawer has not or will not have
sufficient funds in, or credit with, the bank or other depository for
the payment of that check, draft, or order in full upon its presentment,
shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. The making,
drawing, uttering, or delivering by a maker or drawer of a
check, draft, or order, payment of which is refused by the drawee
because of insufficient funds of the maker or drawer in the drawee’s
possession or control, is prima facie evidence of his intent to
defraud or deceive and of his knowledge of insufficient funds in,
or credit with, that bank or other depository, unless the maker or
drawer pays the holder the amount due within five days after
receiving notice, orally or in writing, that the check, draft, or
order was not paid on presentment. In this section, the word
“credit” means an arrangement or understanding, express or implied,
with the bank or other depository for the payment of that
check, draft, or order.
§ 924. Art. 124. Maiming
Any person subject to this chapter who, with intent to injure,
disfigure, or disable, inflicts upon the person of another an injury
which
(1) seriously disfigures his person by a mutilation thereof;
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