UNITED STATES v. NEILL

No. 12044.

248 F.2d 383 (1957)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edward Lee NEILL, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

October 11, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karl M. Milgrom, Chicago, Ill., Hayden C. Covington, Brooklyn, N. Y., for appellant.

Robert Tieken, U. S. Atty., John Peter Lulinski, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., Burton M. Bergstrom, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for appellee.

Before LINDLEY, SCHNACKENBERG and PARKINSON, Circuit Judges.


LINDLEY, Circuit Judge.

Defendant, indicted for and found guilty of refusing to perform civilian work as a conscientious objector, when ordered by his local board at Red Oak, Iowa, to report to a hospital in Evanston, Illinois, for such work, in violation of the Universal Military Training and Service Act (50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, §§ 451-470), appeals, asserting (1) that the United States District Court in Illinois lacked jurisdiction of the crime charged, in...

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