Klopp v. United States

The appellant was convicted, fined $3,500, and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, for violation of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, 50 U.S. C.A., Appendix § 311, for failure to report, after he had been classified IV-E by his Selective Service Board and ordered report for work of national importance at a designated camp under civilian direction.

Though earning more than $12,000 per year in a retail furniture business, he claimed exemption from all service as a regularly and duly ordained minister of religion of the sect Jehovah’s Witnesses; but was classified by…