United States v. David Henry Holmes

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

The question before us on this appeal is whether a Selective Service registrant who orally asserts conscientious objections to military service at the induction station is entitled to have this claim considered and evaluated by the Selective Service System.

David Holmes registered with Selective Service Local Board No. 1 in Hartford, Connecticut on October 5, 1961. For the next several years, while an undergraduate at Trinity College in Hartford and a graduate student at Trinity and the University of Michigan, he had a student deferment (class II-S). On October…