United States v. Hoffman

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

Defendant, Robert Carl Hoffman, a youth of twenty, having been found guilty by a jury of failing to report for induction into the Army of the United States, appeals from the judgment and sentence by the court to the maximum term of imprisonment of five years provided by the statute, 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix, § 311. While defendant's own testimony was sharply in conflict with the evidence for the prosecution, there was clearly evi*418dence to sustain the conviction and the question before us is whether reversal is required by errors in the trial.

Defendant was born in 'Germany on…