UNITED STATES v. SISSON

Crim. No. 68-237.

294 F.Supp. 511 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America v. John Heffron SISSON, Jr.

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

November 25, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul F. Markham, U. S. Atty., John Wall, Asst. U. S. Atty., for plaintiff.

John G. S. Flym, Boston, Mass., for defendant.


OPINION

WYZANSKI, Chief Judge.

The grand jury indicted Sisson for wilfully refusing to perform a duty required under the Military Selective Service Act of 1967, U.S.C. Title 50 App. § 451 et seq., in that he refused to comply with an order of his draft board to submit to induction into the armed forces of the United States.

He has moved to dismiss the indictment principally upon the ground that the draft act as applied to him violates the Constitution...

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