The indictment is in two counts. The second charges that appellant, being a person of Japanese
ancestry, had on a specified date, contrary to a restriction promulgated by the military commander
of the Western Defense Command, Fourth Army, failed to remain in his place of residence 84
in the designated military area between the hours of 8:00 o'clock pm and 6:00 am The first count
charges that appellant, on May 11 and 12, 1942, had, contrary to a Civilian Exclusion Order issued
by the military commander, failed to report to the Civil Control Station within the designated …

Testimony at petitioner's trial or at the evidentiary hearing on his petition indicated that at the
time of the acts for which petitioner was convicted, he was a twentyfour year old senior at the
University of Washington. He was at that time a native-born, American citizen, having been born
in Seattle, Washington, on April 23, 1918. His parents had been born in Japan but had emigrated
to the United States. His father had arrived in the United States in 1907, his mother in 1914. Both
of his parents were nineteen when they came to the United States. They were married in this …