United States v. Gerard Allyn Olson

MATTHES, Chief Judge.

Appellant Olson appeals from a judgment, entered upon a jury verdict, finding him guilty of refusing to report for and submit to induction, a violation of 50 App.U.S.C. § 462. Appellant’s trial date, March of 1972, was after the ratification of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, which lowered the voting age to eighteen but before The effective date of Pub.Law 92-269, § 1; 86 Stat. 117, which, inter alia, amends 28 U.S.C. § 1865(b)(1) by lowering the age for service on federal juries to eighteen. 1 Thus, appellant’s jury was convened under the prior provisions…