UNITED STATES v. SEEGER

No. 206, Docket 28346.

326 F.2d 846 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Daniel Andrew SEEGER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 20, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ezra H. Friedman, Asst. U. S. Atty. for Southern Dist. of New York, New York City (Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., and Andrew T. McEvoy, Jr., and Robert J. Geniesse, Asst. U. S. Attys., on the brief), for appellee.

Kenneth W. Greenawalt, New York City (Lawrence P. J. Bonaguidi and Davies, Hardy & Schenck, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and KAUFMAN and HAYS, Circuit Judges.


KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

On this appeal, Daniel Andrew Seeger contends that he was improperly denied an exemption from military service because his conscientious objections were not dependent upon "a belief in a relation to a Supreme Being" as required by § 6 (j) of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, 50 U.S.C.App. § 456(j). Seeger was convicted of violating 50 U. S.C.App. § 462, because of his refusal to submit to induction, as ordered...

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