Ronald Dean Pittman v. United States

HILL, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from a judgment and sentence following a trial to the court without a jury, for violation of 50 U.S. C. App. § 462, in that appellant failed to report for and submit to induction into the Armed Forces.

After registering with his local draft board at Lawton, Oklahoma, appellant in January, 1961, submitted a written request with the Board for a IV-D ministerial classification. The request recited that registrant had been ordained into the Jehovah’s Witness ministry on March 17, 1960; that he had served as a Vacation Pioneer during November and December, 1960;…