LEONARD v. UNITED STATES

No. 15844.

231 F.2d 588 (1956)

Robert Leroy LEONARD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 6, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Athur T. Boone, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellant.

Edith House, Asst. U. S. Atty., E. Coleman Madsen, Jacksonville, Fla., James L. Guilmartin, U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, CAMERON and JONES, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment and sentence based on a plea of guilty to an indictment charging failure to submit to induction into the armed forces. It differs from the usual run of cases in which such refusal has followed a normal processing of a registrant by the local draft board in which the registrant was denied a classification or exemption claimed.

Here the appellant failed to keep proper contact with his draft board, and...

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