Wells v. United States

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

A jury being waived, the appellant was tried and convicted by the court below for failure to report to his local board for induction into the armed forces of the United States, in violation of 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 311.

On November 30, 1942, the appellant filed his completed questionnaire with his local draft board in Leon County, Texas, where he was then living. The answers to his questionnaire showed that his age was then exactly eighteen years and seven months. *934The hoard placed him in class 1-A, and he appealed from the order. On February 3, 1943, by unanimous vote…