Shannon, Auditor of Public Accounts v. Combs

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

— Reversing.

■ TVe question kere presented is whether or not chapter 13,.- Acts of 1936-37, 4th Extraordinary Session of the G-eneral Assembly of Kentucky, creating the office of highway patrol and investigator for each county and making it the duty of the sheriff of each county and his deputies to perform the additional duties imposed upon and required of him as such officer, and further providing for the payment of. compensation to him for performing same, is valid and constitutional, in so far as it applies to payment of compensation to a sheriff, for the…