Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Nash an yanke masa hukunci a shekarar 1913. Shi da abokinsa, Nollie "Humpy" Wortman, sun saci kusan dala 1,000 daga wani shago a Sapulpa, Oklahoma. A lokacin da suke tserewa, Nash ya ba da shawarar su ɓoye shaidar. Yayin da Wortman ya je ya binne kudin, Nash ya harbe shi a baya. An kama shi sa'o'i bayan haka kuma aka yanke masa hukuncin rai da rai a gidan kurkuku na Jihar Oklahoma. A ranar 28 ga Maris, 1918, an rage hukuncin Nash zuwa shekaru goma bayan ya shawo kan mai kula da kurkukun cewa yana so ya shiga soja kuma ya yi yaƙi a Yaƙin Duniya na I. Nash ya sanya hannu kan katin rajista na soja a ranar 12 ga Yuni, 1918, kuma an sake shi a ranar 16 ga Agusta, 1918. Nash ya ga aikin a Belleau Wood
, Faransa, kafin karshen yakin. (Yakin da aka yi a Belleau Wood ya ƙare a watan Yuni, 1918, kuma yakin ya ƙare Nuwamba 11 na wannan shekarar).