White v. United States

The plaintiff, James L. White, applied and was accepted for enlistment in the Marine Corps at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 13, 1927. His acceptance was duly approved at Kansas City, Missouri, on April 14, 1927, and he was immediately ordered to proceed to Parris Island, South Carolina, which he did, arriving there on April 20, 1927. On June 17, 1927, the plaintiff was surrendered to the sheriff of Washita County, Oklahoma, who held a warrant for his arrest upon a charge of perjury alleged to have been committed on March 11, 1927. The plaintiff was returned to Oklahoma by the sheriff,…