United States v. Milwood W. C. Hughes, Jr.

Milwood W. C. Hughes, Jr., appeals from a judgment of conviction for failure to report for induction into the armed forces, 50 U.S.C. App. § 462(a), after a non-jury trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Irving Ben Cooper, J., 364 F.Supp. 310 (1973). Appellant was sentenced as a young adult offender to six months in prison and 18 months probation thereafter.

Appellant’s basic claim is that the failure of appellant’s local board to act upon his allegedly timely request for reclassification vitiated the induction order. Appellant, a permanent resident…