UNITED STATES v. GOODWIN

No. A-5260.

49 F.Supp. 510 (1943)

UNITED STATES v. GOODWIN.

District Court, N. D. West Virginia.

March 27, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe V. Gibson, U.S. Atty., of Kingwood, W.Va., and Ezra E. Hamstead, Asst. U.S. Atty., of Morgantown, W.Va., for plaintiff.

Horace S. Meldahl, of Charleston, W.Va., for defendant.


HARRY E. WATKINS, District Judge.

Defendant, a Jehovah Witness, was convicted by a jury of violating the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix, § 301 et seq., in failing to report for induction for "work of national importance" at a camp for conscientious objectors. Thereupon, defendant moved to set aside the verdict and for a new trial, assigning many grounds of error. The record will show that many of the points relied upon were not...

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