Lehr v. United States

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, a male citizen of the United States, thirty-two years of age, a chiropractor, and a married man without children, considering himself essential to the health of the community, chose to follow his own notions about his obligations for military service and to disregard the holding of the Local and Appeal Boards to-the contrary. He refused to report for induction when ordered. Prosecution, trial, conviction, sentence, and this appeal followed.

Anteceding these events appellant had been placed by his Local Board in Class I-A. The classification was, by the Appeal…