Bratcher v. United States

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction and sentence in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Alexandria, under which appellant was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of four years and fined in the sum of $1,000 for violation of Section 11 of the Selective Training and Service Act, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix § 311, in evading service in the armed forces by presenting himself for induction pursuant to an order issued by his draft board in Washington, D. C., while in an abnormal physical condition resulting from the use of…