United States v. Jerry Layne Allen

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
United States v. Jerry Layne Allen, 445 F.2d 849 (5th Cir. 1971)
1971 U.S. App. LEXIS 8903

United States v. Jerry Layne Allen

Opinion

PER CURIAM:

Allen appeals from the District Court’s judgment of conviction of a violation of 50 U.S.C.A. App. § 462(a). 1 We affirm.

Allen is nineteen years old. He attacks the composition of the grand jury which indicted him because it consisted only of registered voters, who, by necessity, must be twenty-one years old. Allen urges that he was thus denied a jury of his peers in violation of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments. We disagree. Nothing identifiable or distinctive about young adults under twenty-one sets them apart from young adults over twenty-one, who are eligible for jury duty. See United States v. Kuhn *850 and Greenwood, 5 Cir. 1971, 441 F.2d 179. There was thus no showing of discrimination or exclusion of a distinct group from jury participation. Whitus v. State of Georgia, 1967, 385 U.S. 545, 87 S.Ct. 643, 17 L.Ed.2d 599; Hernandez v. State of Texas, 1954, 347 U.S. 475, 74 S.Ct. 667, 98 L.Ed. 866.

Allen first asserted his claim as a conscientious objector at his induction station. This was too late. Ehlert v. United States, 1971, 402 U.S. 99, 91 S.Ct. 1319, 28 L.Ed.2d 625.

Affirmed.

1

. Refusal to submit to induction into the Armed Forces of the United States.

Reference

Full Case Name
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jerry Layne ALLEN, Defendant-Appellant
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Status
Published