United States v. Bolton

The appellant was convicted after trial to the court, a jury having been waived, upon an information which charged in two counts that on different dates he wilfully refused to report for induction into the armed forces of the United States as ordered by his local draft board, thereby violating the Selective Service Act of 1948, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 451 et seq. He was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of a year and a day on each count, to run concurrently, and is serving his sentence at Danbury, Connecticut.

The sole ground upon which the appellant attacks his conviction is the asserted…