UNITED STATES v. GYEKIS

No. 19547.

446 F.2d 1364 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America v. Kerry David GYEKIS, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided August 16, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marjorie H. Matson, Pittsburgh, Pa., (Michael P. Malakoff, Neighborhood Legal Services, Pittsburgh, Pa., on the brief), for appellant.

Kathleen Kelly Curtin, Asst. U. S. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa. (Richard L. Thornburgh, U. S. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before HASTIE, Chief Judge, and KALODNER and ALDISERT, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, a selective service registrant, has been convicted of the crime of willful refusal to submit to induction in the armed forces, 50 U.S.C. App. § 462(a), and has been sentenced to imprisonment for five years. In disposing of this appeal from that conviction we consider only the appellant's challenge to the denial of his claim to occupational deferment.

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