Bowles v. United States

Petitioner has been convicted in the district court of violating § 11 of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, 54 Stat. 885, in that he failed to respond to an order of his draft board to report for induction into the Army. On the trial, he set up as a defense that he was *34entitled to exemption from the draft as a conscientious objector under the provisions of § 5 (g) of the Act; that he had claimed his exemption before the local draft board which rejected it; that, on his appeal to the appropriate appeal board, the Department of Justice, acting pursuant to § 5 (g), had submitted to…