142 F.2d 202 | 9th Cir. | 1944
Appellant was indicted for violating §11 of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix § 311,
Six alleged errors are assigned. Assignment 1 is that the court erred in denying the motion to quash the indictment. The denial of a motion to quash an indictment is not reviewable.
Assignments 2 and 3 are that the court erred in admitting evidence.
Assignment S is that the court erred in denying the motion for a directed verdict. To consider this assignment would require a bill of exceptions containing all the evidence.
After the bill of exceptions was settled, the trial court ordered its clerk to transmit, and he did transmit to this court, a reporter’s transcript of evidence taken and proceedings had at the trial of this case. The order was improper and ineffectual. The .reporter’s transcript is not a bill of exceptions and is no part of the record.
Undoubtedly we could, in our discretion, permit the bill of exceptions to be amended by incorporating therein all evidence contained in the reporter’s transcript.
Assignment 6 is that the court “erred in refusing to give to the jury the defendant’s [appellant’s] requested instructions
The evidence shows that, as charged in the indictment, appellant was “classified in class IV-E by his local board,” which is to say, the evidence shows that he was classified as being concientiously opposed to participation in war in any form and to participation in noncombatant service in the land or naval forces of the United States and as being, therefore, assignable to work of national importance under civilian direction.
The record brought here contains a part of the court’s charge,
There is no evidence that the board whose order appellant disobeyed (Maricopa County Local Board No. 6) acted in an arbitrary or capricious manner or denied appellant a full and fair hearing. Hence, even if erroneous, the instruction
One of the questions discussed in appellant’s brief is whether the indictment charged an offense, his contention being that it did not. Although the question is not properly raised,
Judgment affirmed.
The indictment charged that on May 14, 1942, at Glendale, Arizona, appellant, “being then and there a person liable for training and service under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, and the amendments thereto, and having theretofore registered under said Act, knowingly, wilfully, unlawfully, and feloniously did fail and neglect to perform a duty required of him under and in the execution of said Act and the rules and regulations duly made pursuant thereto, in this that [appellant], having been classified in Class IV-E by Ms local board, being Maricopa County Local Board No. 6, created and located in Maricopa County, Arizona, under and by virtue of the provisions of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations issued thereunder, and * * * having been duly assigned by said board to work of national importance under civilian direction, and having been duly ordered and notified by said board to report for work of national importance under civilian direction, * * * knowingly, wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously did fail and neglect to report to his said local board at 9:30 A. M., on the 14th day of May, 1942, or at any other time, for work of national importance under civilian direction, as he was required to do by said order. Contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the United States of America.”
United States v. Hamilton, 109 U.S. 63, 3 S.Ct. 9, 27 L.Ed. 857; Goodfriend v. United States, 9 Cir., 294 F. 148, 150; Ramirez v. United States, 9 Cir., 23 F.2d 788, 789; Johnson v. United States, 9 Cir., 59 F.2d 42, 44; Sutton v. United States, 9 Cir., 79 F.2d 863, 864; Tudor v. United States, 9 Cir., 142 F.2d 206. See, also, Hopper v. United States, 9 Cir., 142 F.2d 167, 181; Lowrance v. United States, 9 Cir., 142 F.2d 192.
Assignment 2 relates to the admission of a letter (appellee’s exhibit 7) from A. M. Tuthill, Selective Service Director for the State of Arizona, to J. S. Brazill, Chairman of Maricopa County Local Board No. 6. Assignment 3 relates to the admission of a letter (appellee’s exhibit 11) from James Stokeley, Clerk of the Board of Appeals, Selective Service System, to the Chairman of Maricopa County Local Board No. 6.
Assignment 4 relates to the rejection of affidavits (appellant’s exhibit A) of members of a sect called Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Wheeler v. United States, 9 Cir., 77 F.2d 216, 218; Levine v. United States, 9 Cir., 79 F.2d 364, 367; Muyres v. United States, 9 Cir., 89 F.2d 783; Levey v. United States, 9 Cir., 92 F.2d 688, 692; Waggoner v. United States, 9 Cir., 113 F.2d 867, 868; Utley v. United States, 9 Cir., 115 F.2d 117, 119; Tudor v. United States, supra. See, also, Hopper v. United States, supra.
Rasmussen v. United States, 9 Cir., 8 F.2d 948, 949; Smith v. United States, 9 Cir., 9 F.2d 386, 387; Hall v. United States, 9 Cir., 48 F.2d 66, 67; Patrick v. United States, 9 Cir., 77 F.2d 442, 445; DuVall v. United States, 9 Cir., 82 F.2d 382, 383; Tudor v. United States, supra. See, also, Lowrance v. United States, supra.
Hursh v. Killits, 9 Cir., 58 F.2d 903; Lau Lee v. United States, 9 Cir., 67 F.2d 156; Tudor v. United States, supra.
See Rules 4 and 9 of the Rules of Criminal Procedure after Plea of Guilty, Verdict or Finding of Guilt, 18 U.S.C.A. following section 688; Ray v. United States, 301 U.S. 158, 57 S.Ct. 700, 81 L.Ed. 976; Forte v. United States, 302 U.S. 220, 58 S.Ct. 180, 82 L.Ed. 209; Kay v. United States, 303 U.S. 1, 9, 58 S.Ct. 468, 82 L.Ed. 607; Long v. United States, 9 Cir., 90 F.2d 482; Reiner v. United States, 9 Cir., 92 F.2d 321; Noland v. United States, 9 Cir., 92 F.2d 820; Ross v. United States, 9 Cir., 102 F.2d 113; Walker v. United States, 9 Cir., 113 F.2d 314, 316-319, 129 A.L.R. 725; Tudor v. United States, supra.
Cf. Hopper v. United States, supra; Tudor v. United States, supra; Flynn v. United States, 9 Cir., 139 F.2d 669.
The following instructions were requested and refused:
“1. The Selective Service Board cannot bind a registrant by an arbitrary classification against all of the substantial information before it as to his proper classification. Classifications by such agency must, under the powers given it by Congress be honestly made, and a classification made in the teeth of all substantial evidence before such an agency is not honest but arbitrary.
“2. An individual cannot be deprived of his rights of freedom of person even in war time, except through machinery which guarantees the fundamentals of ‘due process of law’ and a classification by a Selective Service board not supported by any evidence is arbitrary and constitutes an abuse of discretion depriving defendant of due process of law and his right to freedom of religion guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States.
“3. As to conscientious objectors, it is apparent that they may be required to serve in noncombatant work either by induction into the land or naval forces or by assignment to work under civilian direction. If a conscientious objector is found by the board to be that of one whose claim that he is a conscientious objector has been sustained by the board for ‘induction’ into the land or naval forces for noncombatant service, he cannot be required by the board to be assigned to serve under civilian direction, and violates no duty required of him under the Act if he fails to report for such service.
“4. The provision that one who shall ‘knowingly’ fail or neglect to perform'
Meaning, obviously, Maricopa County Local Board No. 6. See footnote 1.
The instruction actually given was as follows: “You are instructed that even if a local draft board acts in an arbitrary and capricious manner, or denies a registrant a full and fair hearing, nevertheless the registrant must comply with the board’s order. The registrant may not disobey the board’s orders and then defend his dereliction by collaterally attacking the board’s administrative acts. In other words, the registrant may not lawfully disobey the local draft board’s order to report for induction and then offer as a defense for his failure to comply with the board’s order, some arbitrary or capi-icious Act of the board in determining his classification and issuing the order.”
Haugsted v. United States, 9 Cir., 68 F.2d 148, 149; Macklin v. United States, 9 Cir., 79 F.2d 756, 757; Waggoner v. United States, supra.
See § 5(g) of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix § 305(g), and regulations thereunder.
See footnote 10.
Bird v. United States, 187 U.S. 118, 132, 23 S.Ct. 42, 47 L.Ed. 100; Lonergan v. United States, 9 Cir., 88 F.2d 591, 595.
See footnote 12.
See footnote 10.
Andrews v. United States, 162 U.S. 420, 424, 16 S.Ct. 798, 40 L.Ed. 1023; Saito v. United States, 9 Cir., 141 F. 653, 655; Johnston v. United States, 9 Cir., 154 F. 445, 449; Magon v. United States, 9 Cir., 248 F. 201, 205; Hall v. United States, supra.
See footnote 12.
Bullard v. United States, 4 Cir., 245 F. 837, 839; Elgin, Joliet & Eastern R. Co. v. United States, 7 Cir., 253 F. 907, 911-913; Doremus v. United States, 5 Cir., 262 F. 849, 852, 13 A.L.R. 853; United States v. Klein, 7 Cir., 108 F.2d 458; Tudor v. United States, supra.
There was no demurrer to the indictment.
Cf. Hopper v. United States, supra; Lowrance v. United States, supra; Tudor v. United States, supra; Elder v. United States, 9 Cir., 142 F.2d 199; Crutchfield v. United States, 9 Cir., 142 F.2d 170.