United States v. Timothy Shawn Burns

ORIE L. PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

Burns was charged by indictment returned June 5, 1968, with failing to comply with the order of his local draft board to report on October 10, 1967, for induction into the armed forces of the United States, in violation of 50 U.S.C. App. § 462(a). From a judgment of conviction on a jury verdict of guilty, he has appealed.

Burns registered with his Local Selective Service Board No. 12 in Grand Junction, Colorado, on April 14, 1965. At that time he completed a Classification Questionnaire, SSS Form No. 100, but left blank that portion of the form for claiming…