Jagla
United States v. Jagla
Opinion
Opinion
Levin, J.
Order Granting Defendant’s Motion for Judgment of Acquittal
Defendant William George Jagla was indicted for refusing to submit to induction into the armed forces of the United States, in violation of 50 U.S.C. App. § 462. He has been tried to the court without a jury, and the matter stands submitted upon defendant Jagla’s Motion for Judgment of Acquittal.
The essential facts are not in dispute. Jagla filed a Selective Service Form 100 (Classification Questionnaire)/ with his local draft board in Placerville, California, on March 7, 1969. Jagla wrote that he had been born on November 7, 1950, and had been graduated from high school in June of 1968. Jagla had not gone on to college and was then unemployed, although he said that he had prior work experience in various kinds of manual labor. Jagla did not sign that portion of Selective Service Form 100 by which he could claim conscientious objection.
Thereafter on May 21, 1969, Jagla’s local board sent him a notice of his classification into Class I-A. On November 10, 1969, Jagla’s local board mailed to him an Order to Report for Armed Forces Physical Examination on December 4, 1969. Jagla had moved from California to Oregon, and…