Ashcraft v. State

There were thirty defendants indicted separately for the same offense, but by consent they were tried together, and there was one judgment of conviction against all of the defendants. An appeal was prosecuted to this court and the judgment against all of the defendants was affirmed. The statute reads as follows:

“Upon the affirmance of a judgment on the appeal of the defendants, an attorney’s fee of twenty dollars, to be paid to the prosecuting attorney, shall be taxed as part of the costs of the appeal, and upon the reversal of a judgment upon an appeal by the plaintiff, a fee of five…