---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 878"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "878"
heading: "Art. 78. Accessory after the fact"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/878"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §878. Art. 78. Accessory after the fact


Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who, knowing that an offense punishable by this chapter has been committed, receives, comforts, or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial, or punishment shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 65.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 878 | 50:672. | May 5, 1950, ch. 169, § 1 (Art. 78), 64 Stat. 134. |