Cox v. Wood
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr! Chief Justice White
delivered. the opinion óf the court.
The appellant,'conformably tp the Selective Draft Law of May 18, 1917, c. 15, 40 Stat. 76, was called to compulsory military, duty and in December,' 1917, was en gaged ip performing it at Camp Funston,'Kansas. On the third of that month he petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus to be directed to the general commanding the camp to discharge him from further service. The ground of the petition was that, although Congress had the power to call the citizens of the United States, the national militia, to compulsory service in virtue of the…
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