Longfellow v. State

THOMAS, Justice.

Responsibility for the payment of travel and related expenses, together with witness fees, for witnesses subpoenaed by an indigent defendant is the question raised in this appeal. The public defender, by motion, requested that these expenses be paid by Laramie County, but the district court refused to impose this expense upon the county, ruling instead that these expenses should be paid by the office of the public defender. The ruling of the district court was premised in part upon the fact that a state district attorney’s office exists in Laramie County. We conclude that the…