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UNITED STATES v. McGINNIS

Civil Action No. 405.

56 F.Supp. 668 (1944)

UNITED STATES ex rel. HOCE v. McGINNIS, U. S. Marshal.

District Court, S. D., West Virginia, at Charleston.

August 29, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Leslie E. Given, U.S. Atty., of Charleston, W. Va., for respondent.

MOORE, District Judge.

In the volume of litigation incident to the enforcement of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix, § 301 et seq., the name of Jehovah's Witnesses is writ large and encountered often. The Witnesses are an ultra and uncompromising religious sect whose members profess allegiance to a visionary heavenly kingdom and disclaim all duties of citizenship which they deem in conflict with such heavenly allegiance. In...

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