People ex rel. Hamilton v. Board of Supervisors
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 14th day of February, 1898, directed to the board of supervisors of the county of Jefferson, commanding it to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Jefferson all and singular its proceedings in reducing a claim made by the relator for services rendered by him, upon the employment of the district attorney of Jefferson county, as an expert witness in a capital case, from the sum of $2,850…
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Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 14th day of February, 1898, directed to the board of supervisors of the county of Jefferson, commanding it to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Jefferson all and singular its proceedings in reducing a claim made by the relator for services rendered by him, upon the employment of the district attorney of Jefferson county, as an expert witness in a capital case, from the sum of $2,850 to the sum of $1,200. On the night of April 15,1897, two women were murdered at or near Sackett’s Harbor, in the county…
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, J.:
Among certain items which are defined by the statute to be a county charge are:
“ All expenses necessarily incurred by the district attorney in criminal actions or proceedings arising in his county.” (Laws of 1892, chap. 686, § 230,- subd. 2.)
This provision was obviously designed to invest the prosecuting attorney of each county with certain discretionary powers, by the reasonable and proper exercise of which he might obtain the necessary evidence with which to secure the arrest and conviction of.parties charged with a violation of the law. That such a provision is both wise and just…
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