Allen v. Ellisor

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiff, a convicted forger, sues individually and as representative of others similarly situated, asserting the unconstitutionality of the South Carolina statute disqualifying persons for conviction of crime. He bases his claim of unconstitutionality on two grounds: the first is the alleged invalidity of the statute under the equal protection clause in its designation of disqualifying offenses; the second is the alleged intentional discrimination on the basis of race in the enactment of the statute. The first raises a question of law resolvable on the face…