United States v. Curtis Allen Hanson

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

Curtis Allen Hanson, whose request for classification as conscientious objector was denied by his local board, was convicted by a jury on an indictment charging him with willfully and knowingly refusing to submit to induction in violation of 50 U.S.C. App. § 462, and was sentenced as a young adult offender under the Federal Youth Correction Act. This appeal is taken from the denial of Hanson’s motion for judgment of acquittal, notwithstanding the verdict, and in the alternative, for a new trial.

The two principal questions raised on this appeal are 1) whether Hanson’s Form…