State ex rel. Reid v. Fournet

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

Art. 196 of the State Constitution provides:

“ The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Education, and the judges of all the courts of record in this State, shall be liable to impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanor, for non- feasance or malfeasance in offices, for incompetency, for corruption, favoritism, extortion or oppression in office, or for gross misconduct, or habitual drunkenness.”

Art. 201 provides that “For any of the causes enumerated in Art. 196,…