UNITED STATES v. EADES

No. 14183.

430 F.2d 1300 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. James Rockwell EADES, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 5, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George L. Fitzgerald, Charlotte, N. C. (Court-appointed counsel), for appellant.

Bruce B. Briggs, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Keith S. Snyder, U. S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF and WINTER, Circuit Judges, and LEWIS, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

James Rockwell Eades appeals his conviction of willful failure to submit to induction in the armed forces of the United States in violation of 50 U. S.C.App. § 462. Eades argues that he was unlawfully denied I-O classification as a conscientious objector solely because he did not claim belief in a Supreme Being. Since the Board turned him down without assigning any reason, we cannot assume that it had an alternative valid ground for denying the classification...

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