Klopp v. Overlade

On May 15, 1944, appellant, under § 11 of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 301 et seq., was convicted in the Southern District of Ohio of failure to report for work of national importance, and sentenced to imprisonment. In that case the trial court refused to permit him to introduce evidence which he claimed would show that he was an ordained minister of religion, entitled to exemption under § 5(d) of the Act. Claiming that the trial judge had erred in so ruling, he appealed, but the judgment was affirmed, Klapp v. United States, 6 Cir., 148…