United States v. Coffman

YANKWICH, District Judge.

On May 13, 1943, Adrian L. Wilbur, and three other Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, arrested the defendant, Roscoe Alexander Coffman, under an indictment returned by the Grand Jury of this District, on May 12, 1943, which charged, in four counts, that the defendant “knowingly, wilfully and unlawfully counseled, aided and abetted” two persons, registrants under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, “to evade service in the land and naval forces of the United States.” 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 311. The arrest was…