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UNITED STATES v. PITT

No. 8665.

144 F.2d 169 (1944)

UNITED STATES v. PITT.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided July 27, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hayden Covington, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for appellant.

Vincent E. Hull, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Newark, N. J., for appellee.

Before BIGGS, GOODRICH, and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.

BIGGS, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Lester Vernon Pitt, was found guilty on an indictment charging him with failure to obey an order of his Local Board directing him to appear and be inducted for training and service in the United States Army. Instead of reporting for induction as ordered, Pitt went to the Fort Dix Induction Center and left there a letter stating that he would not submit to induction. Earlier, on the same day, he had delivered a similar letter to...

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