Dickinson

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction after trial without a jury upon an indictment charging a refusal to submit to induction and be inducted into the armed forces of the United States in violation of § 12 of the Selective Service Act of 1948, Title 50 U.S.C.A., War, Appendix, § 462 (a).

The appellant, a resident of San Francisco, registered with Local Board No. 37 in that City, and thereafter filed his classification questionnaire on December 10, 1948. He there stated that he was a minister of religion of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and had been such since July 1, 1947, although he had not been formally ordained. In response to the question as to the job he was now working at he replied: “I am a minister and support myself by doing radio work at night.” Describing the kind of work he did in his present job, he said: “Test tubes, repair radar, interrogator responder equipment”. He stated that his employer' was the United States Navy at San Francisco naval shipyard. Included in his file in the office of the local board was an additional statement on a separate paper which was apparently filed with the questionnaire. In this he stated that he was prepared to show that as his…