United States v. Richard Edward Long

OPINION

Before BROWNING and CHOY, Circuit Judges, and THOMPSON, * District Judge.

CHOY, Circuit Judge:

Long appeals from a conviction for willfully and knowingly failing to report for induction into the Armed Forces, in violation of 50 U.S.C. App. § 462. We reverse.

Long, a registrant with the Selective Service Board, listed as his address: Star Route, Mesa, Washington 99343. From mid-1971 to March 27, 1973, the date of the indictment, appellant was a musician with a band that performed in various places on the West Coast and in Hawaii. His mother, who lived near Mesa, Washington, would…