United States v. Peter Kenly Crownfield

OPINION OF THE COURT

SEITZ, Circuit Judge.

Defendant, Peter Kenly Crownfield, was convicted on May 21, 1970, of knowingly refusing to submit to induction into the Armed Forces in violation of 50 U.S.C. App. § 462(a). In this appeal, we are asked to consider the applicability of our recent decision in Scott v. Commanding Officer, 431 F.2d 1132 (3d Cir. 1970), to Selective Service proceedings brought before the date of that decision and, more particularly, before the enactment of the 1967 amendments to the Selective Service Act.

In July 1962, at age eighteen, defendant registered with his local…