Bell County v. Ball

CLAY, Commissioner.

This controversy raises the question of whether or not a 1954 Amendment to KRS 64.150, which increased the amount of fees allowable to jailers for keeping, dieting and releasing prisoners, when applied to jailers in office at the time of the passage of the amendment, effects a change of compensation prohibited by section 161 of the Kentucky Constitution.

Appellee Ball was duly elected to the office of jailer of Bell County for a term of four years commencing in January 1954. At the time he took office his maximum compensation had been fixed at $7,200 a year by the fiscal…