2016 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 15. PUBLIC SAFETY
ARTICLE 1E. CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE.
§15-1E-3. Jurisdiction to try certain personnel.
(a) Each person discharged from the state military forces who is later charged with having fraudulently obtained a discharge is, subject to section forty-three of this article, subject to trial by court-martial on that charge and is, after apprehension, subject to this article while in custody under the direction of the state military forces for that trial. Upon conviction of that charge that person is subject to trial by court-martial for all offenses under this article committed before the fraudulent discharge.
(b) No person who has deserted from the state military forces may be relieved from amenability to the jurisdiction of this article by virtue of a separation from any later period of service.
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