OLVERA v. UNITED STATES

No. 15260.

223 F.2d 880 (1955)

Jesus M. OLVERA v. UNITED STATES of America.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 17, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hayden C. Covington, Brooklyn, N. Y., Tom S. Williams, Houston, Tex., for appellant.

C. Anthony Friloux, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Malcolm R. Wilkey, U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and TUTTLE and CAMERON, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Indicted and convicted for refusing to perform, as a conscientious objector, civilian work in the Texas State Hospital at Austin which he had been ordered by his local board to do, defendant, appealing from the sentence of two years in the penitentiary imposed upon him for disobeying the order, is here putting forward two grounds for the reversal of the judgment.

The first ground is that appellant was deprived of due process in that...

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