People Ex Rel. Symonds v. Gualano

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY

delivered the opinion of the court.

The question presented in this appeal is whether an individual who has been convicted of the crime of using the mails to defraud is ineligible to hold public office in this state.

The respondent-defendant is presently serving a four-year term as president of the Village of Justice, having been elected to that office in April of 1965. He is also a member and acting chairman of the village’s Zoning Board of Appeals and is the treasurer of the Justice-Willow Springs Water Commission.

In 1935, after pleading guilty to two counts of…