Harlan County Ex Rel. Middleton v. Brock

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Clay

Beversing..Section 125, Kentucky Statutes, reads as follows:

“No Commonwealth's attorney' shall he paid, or receive as compensation for his services as such officer, for any one year, from the state treasury, more than four thousand dollars; and should the salary and per centum of fines and forfeitures allowed under this act to such officer in any district, for any year, exceed said sum of four thousand dollars, said excess shall not be paid to such officers; hut the fiscal court or the hoard of commissioners, in counties where, for county governmental…