De Long v. Board of Supervisors

1 McGrath 1516, 3 Daily L.N. 767

Opinion

To compel ¡respondent to allow relator’s claim for services in taking a criminal case to the Supreme Court, and the expenses of printing record and brief.

The circuit judge denied the writ. Affirmed February 2, 1897, with costs.

Held, that an attorney appointed to defend an indigent prisoner in the Circuit Court, cannot, upon his own motion upon conviction, appeal the case to the Supreme Court and make the charge for his services and the expenses of such appeal a claim against the county.