Commonwealth v. Pride

I disagree with the Majority’s decision to vacate that part of appellant’s sentence which requires appellant to pay *41$500.00 to the county for services rendered by the Public Defender.

In Commonwealth v. Martin, 233 Pa.Super. 231, 335 A.2d 424 (1975), a common pleas court judge in Bucks County, after finding indigency, granted a defendant’s application for assignment of counsel. The defendant was tried and found guilty and was ordered by the trial judge (a judge other than the one who had granted the application for assignment of counsel), to pay a fine of $5,000, an amount which the judge…