People Ex Rel. Symonds v. Gualano

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from an order, entered pursuant to the mandate of this court, ousting the defendant-respondent from the offices of president and trustee of the Village of Justice, member of the Justice Zoning Board of Appeals and member of the Justice-Willow Springs Water Commission. The issue presented is whether the restoration of the defendant’s rights of citizenship, granted by the Governor of Illinois, removed his ineligibility to hold public office created by his prior convictions for an infamous crime.

In 1935 and 1943…