UNITED STATES v. STEWART

No. 8904.

322 F.2d 592 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Grafton Earl STEWART, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 5, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor V. Blackwell, Covington, La. (William O. Goldstein, Baltimore, Md., and Hayden C. Covington, Brooklyn, N. Y., on brief), for appellant.

Daniel F. McMullen, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty. (Joseph D. Tydings, U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and HAYNSWORTH and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges.


J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Grafton Earl Stewart, appeals from his conviction for violation of the Universal Military Training and Service Act of 1948, § 12, 62 Stat. 622, 50 U.S.C.A.App. § 462, for failure to obey an order of his local draft board to appear before it for assignment. Stewart, a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses, asserts that his conviction was based on the local selective service board's failure properly to grant him a IV...

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