Ferebee v. United States

ROSE, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error, defendant below and so spoken of here, was admittedly properly convicted for failing on June 5, 1917, to register for military service, unless the prosecution against him was barred by the limitation of three years declared by R. S. § 1044, as amended April 13, 1876 (19 Stat. 32 [U. S. Comp. St. § 1708]), as it was if the defendant was not one fleeing from justice, within the meaning of R. S. § 1045 (U. S. Comp. St § 1709). The government offered evidence that it had diligently tried to find him and had failed. His parents’ house, at which he had…