Legal Opinion
Commonwealth, Department of Corrections v. Burke
Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)
Decided March 29, 1968Published
1Opinion of the Court
426 S.W.2d 449 (1968)
COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Appellant,
v.
Francis D. BURKE, Attorney for Walter Hammershoy, Appellee.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky.
March 29, 1968.
Robert Matthews, Atty. Gen., Joseph H. Eckert, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellant.
Francis D. Burke, Joseph W. Justice, Burke & Justice, Pikeville, for appellee.
CLAY, Commissioner.
This is an appeal from a judgment allowing an attorney's fee of $1500 to appellee for representing an indigent criminal defendant, to be paid by the Commissioner of Corrections out of an appropriation made by the 1966…
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