DECKARD v. UNITED STATES

No. 18619.

381 F.2d 77 (1967)

Ivan L. DECKARD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

August 7, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ivan L. Deckard, pro se.

Richard D. FitzGibbon, Jr., U. S. Atty., and John A. Newton, Asst. U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., for appellee.

Stephen M. Boyd and Stephen W. Skrainka, St. Louis, Mo., amicus curiæ, St. Louis Civil Liberties committee.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, BLACKMUN and GIBSON, Circuit Judges.


BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge.

Ivan L. Deckard, by his petition for a writ of error coram nobis, seeks to void his 1961 conviction for a violation of 26 U.S.C. § 5841.1 This statute is the mandatory registration provision of the National Firearms Act, now a part of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended. Deckard claims that the statute, as applied to him, violates his Fifth Amendment guaranty...

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