UNITED STATES v. SISSON

Crim. No. 68-237.

294 F.Supp. 515 (1968)

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

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

Order December 3, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul F. Markham, U. S. Atty., and John Wall, Asst. U. S. Atty., Boston, Mass., for the United States.

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


OPINION

WYZANSKI, Chief Judge.

Defendant construes his motion to dismiss the indictment as including a contention that he is entitled to have the indictment dismissed on the ground that he is being ordered to fight in a genocidal war.

The issue of defendant's standing to raise the genocidal question and the issue whether the question is a question not within this Court's jurisdiction resemble the issues already considered by this Court in denying...

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