United States v. Dale

OPINION

BOWNES, District Judge.

Defendant Edward Morris Dale was indicted for failure to comply with the order of his local draft board to submit to induction into the Armed Forces of the United States in violation of section 12 of the Military Selective Service Act of 1967, 50 U.S.C. App. § 462 [hereinafter, the Act]. His defense is based on four contentions: (1) that the local board and the state appeal board acted improperly in failing to honor his claimed status as a conscientious objector; (2) that a member of the defendant’s local board who acted upon his case stood in the relationship of…