Frauds against the Government affecting matters and equipments.
Article 95
ART. 95. Frauds against the Government affecting matters and equipments.—Any person subject to military law who, having charge, possession, custody, or control of any money or other property of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, furnished or intended, for the military service thereof, knowingly delivers, or causes to be delivered, to any person having authority to receive the same, any" amount thereof less than that for which he receives a certificate or receipt; or Who, being authorized to make or deliver any paper . certifying the receipt of any property of the Commonwealth of the Philippines furnished or intended for the military service thereof, makes or .delivers to any person such writing, without having full knowledge of the truth of the statements therein contained and with intent to defraud the Philippines; or Who steals, embezzles, knowingly and willfully misappropriates, applies to his own use or benefit, or wrongfully or knowingly sells or disposes of any ordnance, arms, equipments, ammunition, clothing, subsistence stores, money, or , other property of the Commonwealth of the Philippines furnished or intended for the military service thereof; or Who knowingly purchases or receives in pledge for any obligation or indebtedness from any soldier, officer or other person who is a part of or employed in said forces , or service, any ordnance, arms, equipment, ammunition, clothing subsistence stores, or other property of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, such soldier, officer, or other person not having lawful right to sell or pledge the same; Shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine or imprisonment, or by such other punishment as a court-martial may adjudge, or by any or all of said penalties. And if any person, being guilty of any of the offenses aforesaid while in the military service of the Philippines, received his discharge or is dismissed from-the service, he shall continue to be liable to be arrested and held for trial and sentence by a court-martial in the same manner and to the same extent as if he had not received such discharge nor been dismissed. And if any officer, being guilty, while in the military service of the Philippines of embezzlement of ration savings, post exchange, company, or other like funds, or of embezzlement of money or other property intrusted to his charge by an enlisted man or men, receives his discharge, or is dismissed, or is dropped from the rolls, he shall continue to be liable to be arrested and held for trial and sentence' by a court-martial in the same manner and to the same extent as if he had not been so discharged,-' dismissed, or dropped from the rolls.