Rea v. McDonald

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses who claimed exemption as an ordained minister of religion but was by the Local Board and Appeal Board classed 1-A, obeyed the Board’s order to report for induction, took the physical examination, and was accepted, but'finally refused to be in*191ducted. For this refusal he was indicted in a district court in Oklahoma and convicted. He took an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals, but his attorney failed to settle the record, and the appeal was dismissed for want of prosecution. Appellant was imprisoned under his sentence in a…