Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who is guilty of cruelty toward or oppression or maltreatment of any person subject to his orders shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. History: 1978 Comp., § 20-12-28, enacted by Laws 1989, ch. 337, § 27. ANNOTATIONS Effective dates. — Laws 1989, ch. 337 contained […]
A. Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who: (1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny; (2) with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of […]
The Code of Military Justice applies to all members of the national guard when not in federal service under Title 10, United States Code and to all members of the state defense force when performing militia duty. The code has territorial applicability both within and without the state. The code has applicability at all times, […]
Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who resists apprehension or breaks arrest or who escapes from custody or confinement shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. History: 1978 Comp., § 20-12-30, enacted by Laws 1989, ch. 337, § 29. ANNOTATIONS Effective dates. — Laws 1989, ch. 337 contained no effective date provision, […]
Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who, without proper authority, releases any prisoner committed to his charge or who through neglect or design suffers any such prisoner to escape shall be punished as a court-martial may direct, whether or not the prisoner was committed in strict compliance with law. History: 1978 Comp., § […]
Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who, except as provided by law, apprehends, arrests or confines any person shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. History: 1978 Comp., § 20-12-32, enacted by Laws 1989, ch. 337, § 31. ANNOTATIONS Effective dates. — Laws 1989, ch. 337 contained no effective date provision, but, […]
Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who is responsible for unnecessary delay in the disposition of any case of a person accused of an offense under that chapter or who knowingly and intentionally fails to enforce or comply with any provision of that chapter regulating the proceedings before, during or after trial of […]
Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who before or in the presence of the enemy: A. runs away; B. shamefully abandons, surrenders or delivers up any command, unit, place or military property which it is his duty to defend; C. through disobedience, neglect or intentional misconduct endangers the safety of any such command, […]
Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who compels or attempts to compel the commander of any place, vessel, aircraft or other military property, or of any body of members of the armed forces, to give it up to an enemy or to abandon it, or who strikes the colors or flag to any […]
Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who in time of war discloses the parole or countersign to any person not entitled to receive it or who gives to another who is entitled to receive and use the parole or countersign a different parole or countersign from that which, to his knowledge, he was […]
Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who forces a safeguard shall suffer death or other punishment as a court-martial may direct. History: 1978 Comp., § 20-12-37, enacted by Laws 1989, ch. 337, § 36. ANNOTATIONS Effective dates. — Laws 1989, ch. 337 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. […]
A. All persons subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 shall secure all public property taken from the enemy for the service of the United States and shall give notice and turn over to the proper authority without delay all captured or abandoned property in their possession, custody or control. B. Any person subject to Chapter […]
Any person who aids or attempts to aid the enemy with arms, ammunition, supplies, money or other things or without proper authority, who knowingly harbors or protects or gives intelligence to or communicates or corresponds with or holds any intercourse with the enemy, either directly or indirectly, shall suffer death or other punishment as a […]
A. A general, special or summary court-martial may be convened by the governor or by the adjutant general. B. A special or summary court-martial may be convened by the assistant adjutant general of the army national guard, as to all members of the army national guard; by the land component commander, as to members of […]
Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who, while in the hands of the enemy in time of war, for the purpose of securing favorable treatment by his captors, acts without proper authority in a manner contrary to law, custom or regulation, to the detriment of others of whatever nationality held by the enemy […]
Any person who in time of war is found lurking as a spy or acting as a spy in or about any place, vessel or aircraft, within the control or jurisdiction of any of the armed forces, or in or about any shipyard, any manufacturing or industrial plant or any other place or institution engaged […]
A. Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers or transmits, or attempts to communicate, deliver or transmit, to any entity described in Subsection B […]
Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who, with intent to deceive, signs any false record, return, regulation, order or other official document, knowing it to be false, or makes any other false official statement knowing it to be false, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. History: 1978 Comp., § 20-12-43, enacted […]
Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who, without proper authority: A. sells or otherwise disposes of; B. willfully or through neglect damages, destroys or loses; or C. willfully or through neglect suffers to be lost, damaged, sold or wrongfully disposed of; any military property of the United States, shall be punished as a […]
Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who willfully or recklessly wastes, spoils or otherwise willfully and wrongfully destroys or damages any property other than military property of the United States shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. History: 1978 Comp., § 20-12-45, enacted by Laws 1989, ch. 337, § 44. ANNOTATIONS Effective […]
