Julita David Robertson v. United States

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge;

Appellant Julita David Robertson, a Jehovah’s Witness, having waived jury trial, was tried and convicted by the District Judge for failure to report as a conscientious objector for civilian employment in lieu of military service, in violation of 50 U.S.C. App. § 462. He appealed on the principal ground that the local Selective Service board improperly declined to grant him a ministerial ex*442emption and therefore that his conviction was erroneous. A panel of this Court, by a 2-to-l vote, reversed the conviction. Robertson v. United States, 5 Cir., 1968, 404 F.2d 1141. On…