United States v. Carl McNeil

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

We are constrained to hold on the facts of this case that the order to report for induction issued by Local Board No. 84, Norfolk, Virginia, to Carl McNeil was valid, and that McNeil’s conviction for subsequently refusing to be inducted was without error.

McNeil was most recently classified on August 3, 1966. For several years prior to that time, McNeil, a Jehovah’s Witness, and officials of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society had written many letters to the Board in unsuccessful attempts to establish that McNeil was entitled to classification either as a conscientious…