London v. State

OPINION

Michael Massengale, Justice

The sole issue in this appeal is an as-applied constitutional challenge to the imposition of statutory court costs for witness subpoenas in a criminal case. The appellant contends that his constitutional rights to compulsory process to secure -favorable witnesses and to confront adverse witnesses1 were violated by a statute which requires a defendant, upon conviction of a crime, to pay “$5 for summoning a witness.”2

The appellant pleaded guilty before trial. He has failed to identify any witness he would have called but for the prospect of postjudgmeht…