IN RE NIELSEN

No. 17796M.

60 F.Supp. 240 (1945)

In re NIELSEN.

District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

April 23, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No counsel for applicant.


McGUIRE, Associate Justice.

Petitioner religiously is a Seventhday Adventist. He said he is willing to take the oath of allegiance, but would qualify that part of the oath which would require him to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic as he is as a matter of religious scruples opposed to the taking of human life.1

If such were all the facts, then obviously upon the authority...

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