Dickinson v. United States

POPE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction after trial without a jury upon an indictment charging a refusal to submit to induction and be inducted into the armed forces of the United States in violation of § 12 of the Selective Service Act of 1948, Title 50 U.S.C.A., War, Appendix, § 462 (a).

The appellant, a resident of San Francisco, registered with Local Board No. 37 in that City, and thereafter filed his classification questionnaire on December 10, 1948. He there stated that he was a minister of religion of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and had been such since July 1,…