UNITED STATES v. HILLYARD

No. C-3879.

52 F.Supp. 612 (1943)

UNITED STATES v. HILLYARD.

District Court, E. D. Washington, S. D.

November 30, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward M. Connelly, U. S. Atty., of Spokane, Wash., for plaintiff.

A. E. Dailey, of Everett, Wash., for defendant.


SCHWELLENBACH, District Judge.

The defendant, having been duly (28 U.S.C.A. § 412) drawn as a juror, refused to serve giving as his reason his membership in Jehovah's Witnesses. The Witnesses are an unincorporated body whose teaching is that the obligations imposed by God are superior to those enacted by temporal government. Their religious belief includes a literal version of Exodus, Chap. 20, verses 3, 4, and 5, in which it is said: "Thou shalt not have strange...

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