People v. Di Medicis

Foster, J.:

This is an application for an allowance to counsel for services in defending the accused on the trial of an indictment charging murder in its first degree;

The statute permitting such allowance is a. recent innovation. Prior to- its enactment, there was no- power in the court to- allow compensation to- counsel, assigned by the court., for the defense of those accused of crimes (People ex rel. Brown v. Board of Supervisors, 4 N. Y. Crim. 102; People ex rel. Ransom v. Supervisors; 78 N. Y. 622), and yet to- the credit of the bar be it said that there is no record or even suggestion of…