United States v. Derstine

GRIM, District Judge.

After having waived a jury trial defendant was found guilty of refusing to submit to induction into the armed forces of the United States. He reported. for induction as ordered, but upon completion of the processing at the induction station he refused to be inducted. He has filed a motion for judgment of acquittal averring, among other things, that he was not accorded the personal hearing before his local Selective Service Board to which he was entitled under the Selective Service Regulations.

The problem in the case was whether or not the defendant, a Mennonite, was…