State v. Crittenden County

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

We have before us a consolidated appeal and cross-appeal which deals with the assignment of responsibility for payment of attorney’s fees, investigative, witness, and other expenses incurred during the course of certain criminal trials in the Second Judicial District of the State of Arkansas. A single point is raised on direct appeal: whether the trial court erred in interpreting the Arkansas Public Defender Commission Act (Act 1193 of 1993, Acts of Arkansas) to require the State of Arkansas, rather than Crittenden County, to be responsible for payment of…