Bagley v. United States

HUTCHESON; Circuit Judge.

Convicted of the offense of having knowingly hindered and interfered by, force and violence with the administration of the Selective Training and Service Act' of 1940,1 and given a penitentiary sentence,, defendant appealed. Here he insists that; the indictment did not charge,2 the proof 3 *569did not make out, the offense, and the judgment must be reversed. We agree. The language in which the act was couched was not put there by accident or inadvertence. It was carefully chosen by Congress when this country was not at war but only preparing for its eventuality in order…