United States v. Glen Earl Long

PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

In a trial to the court without a jury in the Western District of Oklahoma, Long was convicted for refusing to submit to induction into the Armed Forces of the United States in violation of 50 U.S.C. App. § 462(a). He appeals from a five-year sentence, claiming that the local board refused to reopen his 1-A classification and consider his request to be classified as a conscientious objector.

Long registered with his local board on December 6, 1965 and was given a student deferment. There were other changes in his classification prior to October 22, 1968 when he was…