Leslie Robert White v. United States

On January 15, 1969, appellant was charged in a one count indictment with willful failure to comply with an order of his Selective Service Board to report on December 16, 1968, for instructions concerning alternative service employment. 1 He was then convicted by a jury and thereafter duly sentenced.

The record presents a portrait of an indulgent Board and United States Attorney attempting to give a young man every opportunity to avoid criminal prosecution. Appellant did not conclude that he was a conscientious objector for more than three years after he registered. On August 24, 1964, he was…