SMITH v. UNITED STATES

No. 16144.

238 F.2d 79 (1956)

Benjamin Roosevelt SMITH, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 2, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Carl Isaacs, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., for appellant.

W. L. Longshore, U. S. Atty., M. L. Tanner, M. Lewis Gwaltney, Asst. U. S. Attys., Birmingham, Ala., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RIVES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Charged with and convicted of a violation of the Selective Service Act of 1948, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 451 et seq., in that, a registrant with Local Board No. 174 of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, and required by law pursuant to written notice received by him from the Board to appear and be assigned to hospital work, he willfully and unlawfully failed and refused to do so, defendant has...

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