United States v. Frank Mekolichick, Jr., United States of America v. David Charles Wenner

MeLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

These two Selective Service cases present the same major problem with an additional proposition raised in the Wen-ier appeal.

In Mekolichick, the registrant asserted he was a minister of religion and a conscientious objector. The board denied both claims. He was given a personal hearing, thereafter reclassified as 1-0 and assigned to civilian work. He reported, undertook the hospital work assigned him and was classified I-W. He worked about four months and then left the hospital. At the trial Mekoli-chick testified that he made an inspection of the bulletin board of…