177 Iowa 575 | Iowa | 1916
To be eligible to an elective office created by the Constitution, a person must be a qualified elector. State
Any crime punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary is an “infamous crime.” Flannagan v. Jepson, 177 Iowa 393. As the punishment prescribed by statute for forgery is confinement in the penitentiary not more than 10 years, the offense is infamous. Section 4853, Code.
That decision is conclusive on the question of the legality of the- plaintiff’s conviction of an infamous crime, and, under the section of the Constitution quoted, we have no option to do otherwise than declare him not entitled to the privilege of an elector, and, therefore, ineligible as a candidate for the