McCracken County Fiscal Court v. Graves

STEPHENS, Chief Justice.

The present cases are about “who must pay?” In this consolidated appeal, we are asked to reexamine the question of who bears financial responsibility for the payment of expert witness fees incurred on behalf of indigent defendants. Although we believe this question to have been explicitly answered by our opinion in Perry County Fiscal Court v. Commonwealth, Ky., 674 S.W.2d 954 (1984), we have revisited the arguments and with this opinion intend to lay the matter to rest. In connection with this, we shall also address the issue, raised by the latter case only, of a…