Infamous Crime
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A crime which works infamy in one who has committed it. In the United States. It has been held that only those crimes are infamous that were so at common law (1 Dak. 289), but the general rule is that any offense is infamous that may be punished by death, or by imprisonment in the penitentiary, with or without hard labor.
128 U. S. 393; 8 Gray (Mass.) 349; 75 Mich. 611.
A crime which subjects the party to a disqualification to hold office, in case he is convicted of such crime.
171 111. 73.
The test is the possible punishment, and not that awarded in a particular case.
114 U. S. 417.
At Common Law. Treason and all felonies, and certain misdemeanors affecting the public interest most closely, were infamous crimes, the nature of the crime being the test.
1 Greenl. Ev. § 373; 114 U. S. 417.