Lancaster v. United States

WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment sentencing the appellant to a term of imprisonment entered after a jury had found him guilty as charged in an indictment alleging violation of § 11 of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 311, in that, having been found acceptable, he refused to submit to induction into the Land or Naval Forces of the United States.

On October 16, 1940, the appellant registered with his local board in accordance with the above Act, and he filed his Selective Service Questionnaire with that board on December 4,…