Palm Beach County v. Rose

ALDERMAN, Judge.

Palm Beach County by petition for writ of certiorari seeks review of an order of the Honorable William Lamar Rose, Judge of the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit. We grant certiorari, quash the or*128der, and hold that Judge Rose departed from the essential requirements of the law when he directed Palm Beach County to pay fees and mileage to witnesses in a criminal case in excess of the per diem and mileage authorized by Section 90.14, Florida Statutes (1975).

The facts are as follows: An indigent defendant in a criminal. case obtained a change of venue from Palm…