United States v. David Henry Mitchell, III

MEDINA, Circuit Judge:

Appellant David Henry Mitchell, III, appeals from a judgment of conviction, entered upon a jury verdict of guilty, arising out of a one-count indictment charging appellant with wilful failure to report for induction into the Armed Forces, in violation of 50 U.S.C. App., § 462.

Various points of law have been covered in the briefs and on oral argument but we shall confine our discussion to the decisive question, whether appellant’s right to the effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment was infringed by forcing him to trial without allowing him sufficient…