Dodez v. United States

PICARD, District Judge.

Appellant, member of Jehovah’s Witnesses, was convicted by a jury in the District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, for violation of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 301 et seq., and regulations pursuant thereto. He failed to report for work of national importance and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.

The issues' are three, though under numerous headings, and cover questions that have heretofore been settled by our courts in many instances since administrators of the Act and members of this particular…