People v. Neff
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by John Knight from an order made at the Wyoming Extraordinary Trial Term of the-Supreme Court, and entered in tile office of the'clerk of the county-of Wyoming on the 13th day of May, 190t, denying his application for., a certificate fixing the compensation due him on - account' of services performed in the prosecution-of’the above-entitled action.
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Appeal by John Knight from an order made at the Wyoming Extraordinary Trial Term of the-Supreme Court, and entered in tile office of the'clerk of the county-of Wyoming on the 13th day of May, 190t, denying his application for., a certificate fixing the compensation due him on - account' of services performed in the prosecution-of’the above-entitled action. In January, 1906, the defendant was indicted.and arraigned in the county of Erie for the crime of grand larceny in the first degree. In June of that year an order was granted changing the. place of trial of -the action to the. county of…
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The district attorney is a constitutional officer. (N. Y. Const. art. 10, § 1.) There does not, however, seem to he any statute defining his general duties. The County Law (Laws of 1892, chap. 686, §§ 200-204, as amd.) provides for liis- election, term of office, etc., but does not prescribe his functions. In very general language, prior to the enactment of the County Law, there had always been a general statement in some statute of the duties of the district attorney, as is shown in the- opinion of the court below. The last of these enactments was repealed by the County Law.…
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