United States v. Stephen Dale Hanson

Defendant was convicted of violating 50 U.S.C. App. § 462(a) by refusing to submit to induction. Defendant, following his registration, was given a pre-induction physical examination and found fit. He did not agree with this finding and when ordered to report for induction brought with him X rays which he claimed showed him to be unfit. The medical examiner at the induction station did not agree with him. Defendant, dissatisfied with the way in which he had been examined and the results of the examination, took his file and a previously prepared letter to the front desk which, in defendant’s…