Supreme Court of North Carolina April 14, 1915 (Groves v. Barden)

AlleN, J.

The Constitution, Art. XIV, sec. 7, declares that “No person who shall hold any office or place of trust or profit under the United States or any department -thereof, or under this State, or under any other State or government, shall hold or exercise any other office or place of trust or profit under the authority of this State], or be eligible to a seat in either house of the General