Gordnier v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Southern District of California; Oscar A. Trippet, Judge. . _ _ Thomas H. Gordnier was convicted of. willful failure and refusal to present himself or to submit to registration according to the requirements of the President’s proclamation and the Selective Draft Act, § 5, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error was convicted under an indictment which charged him with willful failure and refusal to present himself for or to submit to registration, according to the requirements of the President’s proclamation and of section 5 of the Selective Draft Act (Act May 18, 1917, c. 15, 40 Stat. 80 [Comp. St. 1918, § 2044e]). On the trial proof was made of certain statements made by the plaintiff in error shortly before he was accused of the offense, the purport of which was that he did not know whether he was then 45 or 46 years of age, that he was born at…
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