Commonwealth v. Fayette County

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Affirming’.

The - fiscal court of Fayette county duly and regularly entered an order on its records appropriating out of the general fund in the county treasury $10,000 “for the purpose of purchasing -and operating a fire truck, the amount to -be paid out of a subdivision of the general fund known- as' ‘-Miscellaneous Budget,’ ” and also another order appointing a committee to expend the appropriation for that purpose. The county attorney, conceiving that the fiscal court was without authority to. make the appropriation for that purpose, prosecuted an…