Case Title: Perry County Fiscal Court v. Com.

Citation: 674 S.W.2d 954

Docket Number: 

State: kentucky

Court: Kentucky Supreme Court

Date: 1984-09-13T00:00:00Z

Document:
674 S.W.2d 954 (1984) PERRY COUNTY FISCAL COURT, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Honorable Sidney B. Douglass, Harlow Gwinn, Department of Public Advocacy, Appellees. Supreme Court of Kentucky. July 5, 1984. As Modified September 13, 1984. *955 Charles E. Allen, William Engle, II, Perry County Atty., Hazard, for appellant. David L. Armstrong, Atty. Gen., Frankfort, Oleh Tustaniwsky, Public Advocate, Hazard, Gail Robinson, Asst. Public Advocate, J. Vincent Aprile, II, Public Advocate and General Counsel Department of Public Advocacy, Frankfort, for appellees. Sidney B. Douglass, pro se. This matter comes to us on appeal as a matter of right from the Court of Appeals. We adopt the following from the opinion of Judge Wilhoit as the opinion of this court and extend that opinion as indicated: KRS 31.200(3) reads as follows: We find no ambiguity in construing these two statutes, viz., K.R.S. 31.185 and K.R.S. 31.200(3). It is clear that the trial court may authorize the payment of fees for necessary expert witnesses by the county, not the Department of Public Advocacy, in all counties unless the circumstances are such that K.R.S. 31.200(3) would require otherwise. Accordingly, the Perry County Fiscal Court is directed and ordered to pay the reasonable fees of such expert witnesses as are reasonably necessary for the defendant Harlow Gwinn. All concur.