Case Name: JOHN S. HRKO vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR; THOMAS L. BUTCHER vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR; RIBEL & JULIAN vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR; J. M. TULLY vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR; JAMES C. RECHT vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR; T. OWEN WILKINS vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR; FRANK RIBEL, JR. vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR; JOHN C. HIGINBOTHAM vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR; JOHN R. GLENN vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR; GLENN O. SCHUMACHER vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR; WILLIAM H. ANSEL, JR. vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR; CYNTHIA L. TURCO vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR
Court: West Virginia Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
Decision Date: 1980-02-13
Citations: 13 Ct. Cl. 110
Docket Number: CC-79-221b; CC-79-226b; CC-79-230b; CC-79-232b; CC-79-233b; CC-79-238; CC-79-239b; CC-79-241b; CC-79-244; CC-79-246b; CC-79-247; CC-79-256
Parties: JOHN S. HRKO vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR THOMAS L. BUTCHER vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR RIBEL & JULIAN vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR J. M. TULLY vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR JAMES C. RECHT vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR T. OWEN WILKINS vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR FRANK RIBEL, JR. vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR JOHN C. HIGINBOTHAM vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR JOHN R. GLENN vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR GLENN O. SCHUMACHER vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR WILLIAM H. ANSEL, JR. vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR CYNTHIA L. TURCO vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR
Judges: 
Reporter: Report of the West Virginia Court of Claims
Volume: 13
Pages: 110–117

Head Matter:
Opinion issued February 13, 1980
JOHN S. HRKO vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR THOMAS L. BUTCHER vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR RIBEL & JULIAN vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR J. M. TULLY vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR JAMES C. RECHT vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR T. OWEN WILKINS vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR FRANK RIBEL, JR. vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR JOHN C. HIGINBOTHAM vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR JOHN R. GLENN vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR GLENN O. SCHUMACHER vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR WILLIAM H. ANSEL, JR. vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR CYNTHIA L. TURCO vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR
(CC-79-221b)
(CC-79-226b)
(CC-79-230b)
(CC-79-232b)
(CC-79-233b)
(CC-79-238)
(CC-79-239b)
(CC-79-241b)
(CC-79-244)
(CC-79-246b)
(CC-79-247)
(CC-79-256)
Henry C. Bias, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, for respondent.
The Court issued per curiam decisions in accordance with this decision to claimants who served as counsel for criminal indigents. The following is a list of those claimants and the awards granted:
Paul R.. Goode, Jr. $ 395.00
Loudoun L. Thompson . 3,551.75
Michael D. Sturm. 850.00
Eugene D. Pécora. 414.75
Charles E. Parsons. 852.50
Raymond G. Musgrave. 2,997.37
John S. Holy. 1,500.00
Sprague Hazard. 388.75
Lucien Lewin. 50.00
Michael Scales. 161.75
J. Wendell Reed . 341.30
Stephen L. Thompson. 227.00
David S. Alter, II . 272.85
Charles F. Printz, Jr. 1,276.34
V. Alan Riley . 1,482.00
Russell M. Clawges, Jr. 1,432.02
Royce B. Saville . 643.75
John S. Kaull.■. 1,148.80
William O’Brien. 410.00
Stephen Jon Ahlgren. 20.00
Robert Poyourow. 2,042.88
George A. Markusic. 1,169.96
Core and Core . 825.35
James D. Terry . 852.50
C. Elton Byron, Jr. 815.00
Carroll T. Lay. 1,404.20
Joseph C. Hash, Jr. 50.00
Nancy S. Miller. 486.00
P. C. Duff.' 1,026.25
Ray L. Hampton, II. 295.00
Peter A. Niceler. 317.45
Charles M. Kincaid . 1,647.10
Robert E. Vital. 175.00
Ronald E. Anderson . 1,147.50
Robert C. Chambers . 1,062.50
Paul A. Ryker. 100.00
Marsha Dalton. 340.00
George W. Hill, Jr. 2,146.50
Richard Starkey . 168.00
John P. Anderson. 964.75
Thomas S. Lilly. 250.00
Appalachian Research and Defense Fund. 1,002.13
Simmons & Martin . 65.00
Bert Michael Whorton . 968.25
Sanders & Blue. 1,142.97
Paul Nagy . 85.88
Paul H. Woodford, II. 302.50
Philip A. Reale. 444.40
R. Terry Butcher. 102.50
David G. Palmer. 3,767.02
James A. Matish. 522.50
James R. Sheatsley. 107.50
William B. Kilduff. 683.85
Lane O. Austin. 213.15
Derek Craig Swope. 161.50
Philip T. Lilly, Jr. 170.00
James L. Satterfield . 157.09
J. Burton Hunter, III. 506.31
Ernest M. Douglass. 182.50
Johnston, Holroyd & Gibson . 7,561.55
Alan H. Larrick. 87.50
William W. Merow, Jr. 438.83
Jeffrey Corbin Dyer. 117.50
David L. Solomon . 280.00
Jacob W. Ray. 1,461.78
Brown H. Payne. 35Q.00
Bradley J. Pyles . 1,007.50
Láveme Sweeney. 1,882.25
Richard W. Crews. 1,240.00
R. Thomas Czarnik . 1,475.95
George Zivkovich. 320.78
Larry N. Sullivan . 1,903.78
H. F. Salsbery, Jr. 167.00
David R. Gold . 691.85
Louis H. Khourey. 284.00
Patrick N. Radcliff. 234.50
Charles W. Davis. 322.79
Edwin B. Wiley. 6,126.08
A. E. Cooper. 142.50
Roy David Arrington . 501.75
Ward D. Stone, Jr. 138.25
Robert B. Stone. 323.75
Nicolette Hahon Granack. 326.94
Robert F. Gallagher. 216.50
Michael R. Cline. 25.00
Paul S. Perfater. 125.00
Thomas Ralph Mullins. 366.25
W. Ronald Denson. 660.00
David F. Greene . 380.00
Charles M. Walker . 1,012.00
Thomas M. Hayes. 541.40
Michael T. Chaney. 150.00
Phillip D. Gaujot. 270.00
Thomas R. Tinder. 287.70
Robert L. Twitty. 712.50
Michael T. Clifford. 1,990.00
Thomas C. Evans, III . 851.25
Orton A. Jones. 484.25
George D. Beter . 805.95
Howard M. Persinger, Jr. 1,792.50
Kevin B. Burgess. 534.38
T. R. Harrington, Jr. 196.75
Wayne D. Inge. 306.25
Frederick A. Jesser, III . 606.50
Phil J. Tissue. 235.00
Steve Vickers. 241.60
Janet Frye (Steele). 1,560.35
John M. “Jack” Thompson, Jr. 1,922.50
J. Robert Rogers. 2,090.40
Richard Thompson . 1,229.10
Boyce Griffith . 1,872.50
Robin C. Capehart. 571.50
Ronnie Z. McCann. 1,147.50
John W. Bennett. 193.60
Robert W. Vukas. 766.77
Robert W. Friend . 670.00
Bogarad & Robertson. 340.30
W. Dean Delamater. 246.63
George P. Bohach . 667.75
Fred Risovich, II. 437.70
David L. Shuman. 1,908.02
Grant Crandall. 1,000.75
Penelope Crandall . 21.60
Larry D. Taylor. 115.00
Mark A. Taylor. 383.00
Stephanie J. Racin. 130.00
Ralph C. Dusic, Jr. 265.00
Harry M. Hatfield. 950.00
William C. Field. 402.50
Robert E. Douglas . 437.50
Stephen P. Swisher. 458.50
David M. Finnerin. 2,248.45
F. Alfred Sines, Jr. 871.25
James G. Anderson, III. 1,369.69
Martin J. Glasser. 853.97
Charles H. Brown. 12.50
Lawrence L. Manypenny. 243.74
Cletus B. Hanley. 205.00
Billy E. Burkett. 327.50
F. Christian Gall, Jr. 1,417.95
J. E. Wilkinson. 740.00
J. Franklin Long. 9,887.95
Robert L. Schumacher. 3,722.82
Hudgins, Coulling, Brewster & Morhous . 856.50
Richard A. Bush. 2,447.19
John R. Frazier. 3,594.15
David M. Flannery. 119.90
Henry C. Bowen. 503.05
Daniel A. Oliver. 1,323.75
Harry A. Smith, III . 133.75
C. Michael Bee. 549.53
James J. MacCallum. 440.00
Lary D. Garrett . 715.00
Karen L. Garrett. 932.50
Jerry D. Moore. 79.60
Raymond G. Musgrave. 1,500.00
Dan O. Callaghan. 426.74
Thomas N. Chambers. 230.00
Thomas G. Freeman, II . 690.00
W. Henry Jernigan. 50.00
John R. Lukens. 485.14
Taunja Willis Miller. 65.45
Forrest H. Roles . 93.65
W. Warren Upton . 100.15
John S. Sibray. 4,106.58
Rudolph J. Murensky, II. 115.00
Donald E. Santee . 255.00
Alexander J. Ross . 117.50
Michael H. Lilly. 4,128.30
Robert N. Bland . 1,460.00
Bernard R. Mauser. 172.90
Jeniver J. Jones . 682.50
Steven C. Hanley . 1,410.00
William Mitchell . 235.00
Jack L. Hickok . 97.80
John C. Krivonyak. 346.25
James E. Ansel .'. 645.00
W. Del Roy Harner. 110.00
G. David Brumfield. 1,114.15
McGinnis E. Hatfield, Jr. 616.25
James G. Anderson, III. 87.50
Charles W. Wilson. 94.00
James A. Esposito . 656.25
Nicolette Hahon Granack. 787.50
Elizabeth M. Martin. 715.00
Carroll T. Lay. 123.75
Damon B. Morgan . 610.00
James Michael Casey. 2,148.15
Rosemarie Twomey. 435.77
Ward D. Stone, Jr. 150.00
Robert B. Stone. 506.25
Michael L. Solomon . 1,937.50
Barry L. Casto. 1,781.02
H. F. Salsbery, Jr. 57.00
L. Edward Friend, II. 821.00
Raymond G. Musgrave. 644.30
Francoise D. Stauber . 447.00
Robert F. Gallgher. 1,097.00
Peggy O’Neal Hart. 338.96
William W. Merow, Jr. 35.00
Stephen C. Littlepage. 1,291.60
Larry N. Sullivan . 252.50
Nancy S. Miller. 665.00
Daniel A. Oliver. 1,098.50
Gerard R. Stowers. 198.50
Robert J. Smith. 125.00
Raymond H. Yackel . 1,317.50
James D. Terry . 1,177.50

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
These claims have been consolidated by the Court on its own motion since all of the claims are governed by the same principles of law.
The claimants are attorneys who served as counsel for criminal indigents in juvenile, misdemeanor, or felony proceedings pursuant to the provisions of West Virginia Code, Chapter 51, Article 11. Claimants' fees were denied by the respondent because the fund was exhausted.
The factual situations in these claims are identical to that in Richard K. Swartling, et al. v. Office of the State Auditor, issued on November 5, 1979. Accordingly, the Court hereby grants awards to the claimants as follows:
John S. Hrko . 500.00
Thomas L. Butcher. 1,133.83
Ribel & Julian. 1,590.00
J. M. Tuhy. 645.00
James C. Recht. 946.50
T. Owen Wilkins. 800.50
Frank Ribel, Jr. 115.00
John C. Higinbotham. 176.25
John R. Glenn. 45.00
Glenn O. Schumacher . 1,851.75
William H. Ansel, Jr. 1,028.40
Cynthia L. Turco. 1,107.52