United States v. Romano

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

Defendant was indicted under 50 U.S. C.A.Appendix, § 462 for failing to take one step forward, thereby refusing to be inducted into the United States Army.

The case was tried without a jury and upon the trial the following facts developed. Defendant, who was born on May 1, 1929, is a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses sect. Early in May, 1949 he received a Selective Service questionnaire which he answered on May IS, 1949. In the questionnaire he claimed to have been a Jehovah’s Witness since 1942 and requested exemption from service on grounds that ■he was a…