Takehara v. Dulles, Secretary of State of the United States

BONE, Circuit Judge.

I dissent from the views expressed by my associates and for reasons hereafter stated I would affirm the judgment on appeal. Furthermore, I see nothing in the doctrine of the Mandoli case relied on by the majority which requires a reversal.

Appellant voted in a Japanese political election held in 1947 after he was 21 years of age (see Miranda v. Clark, 9 Cir., 180 F.2d 257) and from the record and the inferences which might legitimately be drawn from the testimony of appellant1 I am fully *563persuaded that the findings of the lower court are not clearly erroneous. Argument is…